# Issue with innobackupex /path/to/backup

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/issue-with-innobackupex-path-to-backup/2872>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [August 12, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/issue-with-innobackupex-path-to-backup/2872 "2013-08-12T06:40:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexkipkalo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/alexkipkalo/32/907_2.png) [@alexkipkalo](https://forums.percona.com/u/alexkipkalo)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/issue-with-innobackupex-path-to-backup/2872/1 "2013-08-12T06:40:50Z")

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When innobackupex starts copying database folders getting: [Warning] Too many connections;  
Could you please advice ?

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**Author:** ![mirfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mirfan/32/16890_2.png) [@mirfan](https://forums.percona.com/u/mirfan)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/issue-with-innobackupex-path-to-backup/2872/2 "2013-08-12T14:49:39Z")

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To me it look likes you are using MyISAM engine for most of the tables and tables gets locked during the copy process and it yields “Too many connections”. Can you please confirm ? mysql processlist gives you clear idea what actually causing this issue either bad queries running too long or queries gets locked. What is your current setting of max\_connections and does log\_warnings is enabled ?