# Xtrabackup 8.0.34 failure due to lost+found' directory

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**Created:** [June 25, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34-failure-due-to-lost-found-directory/31240 "2024-06-25T20:03:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![ronnels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@ronnels](https://forums.percona.com/u/ronnels)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34-failure-due-to-lost-found-directory/31240/1 "2024-06-25T20:03:22Z")

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2024-06-25T15:59:05.067528-04:00 0 [ERROR] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] directory ‘lost+found’ is not readable by XtraBackup

Every file system in unix has the lost+found directory. How do we skip this

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34-failure-due-to-lost-found-directory/31240/2 "2024-06-25T20:44:40Z")

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> [@ronnels](#):
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> Every file system in unix has the lost+found directory.

Only at the root of the mount does this exist. Simply don’t use the root path of a mount point. Create a directory inside and use that.