# Xtrabackup 8.0.34

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [August 31, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34/24822 "2023-08-31T05:46:04Z")\
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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:** [August 31, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34/24822/1 "2023-08-31T05:46:04Z")

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Seems like --datadir is ignored and the uncompressed files went to --target-dir

xtrabackup --decompress --target-dir=/backup/db --datadir=/data/db  
2023-08-30T21:05:04.953152-04:00 0 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] recognized server arguments: --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --datadir=/data/db  
2023-08-30T21:05:04.953428-04:00 0 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] recognized client arguments: --decompress=1 --target-dir=/backup/db

Is this a normal behavior?

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**Author:** ![Marcelo\_Altmann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/marcelo_altmann/32/11299_2.png) [@Marcelo\_Altmann](https://forums.percona.com/u/Marcelo_Altmann)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34/24822/2 "2023-08-31T12:41:41Z")

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Hi @ronnels

Thanks for your question. In fact, the behavior is correct. Users have to first decompress the files to later execute the --prepare stage, and this is all done in the backup dir (aka --target-dir). Here is the documentation for your reference [Prepare the backup - Percona XtraBackup](https://docs.percona.com/percona-xtrabackup/8.0/prepare-compressed-backup.html) .

Let me know if you have any further questions.

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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:** [August 31, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-34/24822/3 "2023-08-31T15:28:52Z")

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Thank you Marcelo! Will do as you recommended.