# Unknown option: remote-host

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [July 15, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unknown-option-remote-host/4306 "2015-07-15T03:29:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![src386](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@src386](https://forums.percona.com/u/src386)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unknown-option-remote-host/4306/1 "2015-07-15T03:29:55Z")

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Hi everyone,  
According to this : [url][https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.0/innobackupex/remote\_backups\_ibk.html[/url]](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.0/innobackupex/remote_backups_ibk.html%5B/url%5D)  
It’s possible to store backups to a remote host, without the need of NFS.  
So here is my command :

```auto
innobackupex --remote-host=root&#64;10.1.2.156 --user=percona --password=mypassword /data/db-backup/bdd
Unknown option: remote-host
innobackupex: got a fatal error with the following stacktrace: at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 3916
main::check_args() called at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 1531
innobackupex: Error: Bad command line arguments

```

Damn, what am I missing ?  
The remote-host option appears in the manpage, I don’t understand why this doesn’t works.

Regards,  
Xavier C.

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**Author:** ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unknown-option-remote-host/4306/2 "2015-07-19T16:04:57Z")

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which version percona xtrabackup have you installed? you might be using latest 2.1 or 2.2 version of xtrabackup which does not have this funtionality anymore. try using --stream instead.