# less verbosity for innobackupex

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/less-verbosity-for-innobackupex/2896>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [August 21, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/less-verbosity-for-innobackupex/2896 "2013-08-21T23:49:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![rabudde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@rabudde](https://forums.percona.com/u/rabudde)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/less-verbosity-for-innobackupex/2896/1 "2013-08-21T23:49:55Z")

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We create our backups from Percona Server with innobackupex in a daily cron job. It seems, that backup succeeded (", but after completion we get a huge e-mail containing megabytes of debug/log output from innobackupex. Is there a way to make innobackupex less verbose or to send a mail only on failure? I don’t want to use “2\>&1” in cron job, because this supresses failures also.

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**Author:** ![przemek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/przemek/32/3_2.png) [@przemek](https://forums.percona.com/u/przemek)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/less-verbosity-for-innobackupex/2896/2 "2013-08-23T05:57:25Z")

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No such option unfortunately. Why don’t you send the whole output to a log file and only errors and last status to the standard output though? Like this:

```auto
[root&#64;lap-prz]# innobackupex --password=xxx /home/backups/ 2>&1|tee innobackupex.log|egrep "ERROR|innobackupex: completed OK"
130823 13:24:28 innobackupex: completed OK!

```