# Remote Backup using innobackupex **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona XtraBackup\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/remote-backup-using-innobackupex/2726 "2013-05-29T10:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![J\_Grieb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@J\_Grieb](https://forums.percona.com/u/J_Grieb)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/remote-backup-using-innobackupex/2726/1 "2013-05-29T10:33:43Z")
Please pardon me if this is a stupid question - I’m very new to Percona. I need to perform a backup of a database from a central server. I thought the command to use was: innobackupex-1.5.1 --user=root --password=xxxxxx --host=dtcs-clalcpm01-mgt /data/percona\_backups This seems to connect to the remote database server but it still attempts to backup a local instance of the database. ---
**Author:** ![revin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/revin/32/824_2.png) [@revin](https://forums.percona.com/u/revin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/remote-backup-using-innobackupex/2726/2 "2013-05-29T20:36:34Z")
J\_Grieb, XtraBackup has to be run from the server where MySQL is running because it will need to copy the files. You can create a wrapper script for the innobackupex command to be called remotely instead. ---
**Author:** ![leafonsword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@leafonsword](https://forums.percona.com/u/leafonsword)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/remote-backup-using-innobackupex/2726/3 "2014-07-21T00:43:17Z")
> [@revin;10401](#): > > J\_Grieb, > > XtraBackup has to be run from the server where MySQL is running because it will need to copy the files. You can create a wrapper script for the innobackupex command to be called remotely instead. Since innobackup just run in local machine， why innobackup has option ‘–host’？