# Restore fullbackup using different path specified in my.cnf

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restore-fullbackup-using-different-path-specified-in-my-cnf/4740 "2016-02-23T08:50:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boadrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Boadrius](https://forums.percona.com/u/Boadrius)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restore-fullbackup-using-different-path-specified-in-my-cnf/4740/1 "2016-02-23T08:50:03Z")

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Hi everybody,

I want to restore a full backup using innobackupex but I would like to use to restore the database a different path specified in my.cnf ‘var/lib/mysql’. Is it possible specify other path without --copy-back?

Thank you.

Best regards,  
Boadrius

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**Author:** ![sayeedanas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sayeedanas/32/26_2.png) [@sayeedanas](https://forums.percona.com/u/sayeedanas)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restore-fullbackup-using-different-path-specified-in-my-cnf/4740/2 "2016-02-24T02:17:18Z")

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Yes Boadrius, it is possible, only you need to define your my.cnf path while taking backup via innobackupex like below

innobackupex --defaults-file=/etc/my\_anon.cnf – XXXXXXX

Hope it will be helpfull for you.

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**Author:** ![Boadrius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Boadrius](https://forums.percona.com/u/Boadrius)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/restore-fullbackup-using-different-path-specified-in-my-cnf/4740/3 "2016-08-09T02:29:52Z")

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Thank you so much sayeedanas. It was very useful 🙂