# xtrabackup --backup --target-dir=.. --datadir=..  --user=root --password=...

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [May 10, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-backup-target-dir-datadir-user-root-password/5591 "2017-05-10T03:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nae8thab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@Nae8thab](https://forums.percona.com/u/Nae8thab)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-backup-target-dir-datadir-user-root-password/5591/1 "2017-05-10T03:08:41Z")

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Hello

see [url][https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/173090/xtrabackup-binary-not-innobackupex-invalid-trailing-arguments-backup-tar[/url]](https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/173090/xtrabackup-binary-not-innobackupex-invalid-trailing-arguments-backup-tar%5B/url%5D) for details.

thanks for help