# Xtrabackup endlessly prints "log scanned up to (xxx)"

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endlessly-prints-log-scanned-up-to-xxx/21828 "2023-05-03T11:05:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![axel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/axel/32/10423_2.png) [@axel](https://forums.percona.com/u/axel)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endlessly-prints-log-scanned-up-to-xxx/21828/1 "2023-05-03T11:05:09Z")

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I am using this command:  
`xtrabackup --host=XX.XXX.XX.XX --user=XXX --password=XXX --backup --target-dir=/root/backups/`

to run backups. However, xtrabackup doesn’t seem to be finishing the task. It just endlessly prints “2023-05-03T10:55:23.916415-00:00 1 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] \>\> log scanned up to (19480638)” for 4 hours now.

My backup server is running on digitalocean with the following specs:  
`4 GB Memory / 2 Intel vCPUs / 80 GB Disk / NYC1 - Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64`

I have a master-slave architecture setup and these are the specs:  
Master: `32 GB Memory / 200 GB Disk / NYC1 - Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64`  
Slave: `16 GB Memory / 200 GB Disk / NYC1 - Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64`

Please help.

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**Author:** ![kedarpercona](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/kedarpercona/32/809_2.png) [@kedarpercona](https://forums.percona.com/u/kedarpercona)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endlessly-prints-log-scanned-up-to-xxx/21828/2 "2023-05-03T11:33:26Z")

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Welcome back Axel,

Did you happen to see if this is relevant: [https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endless-loop-of-log-scanned-up-to/](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endless-loop-of-log-scanned-up-to/)

I also invite you to go through [How Xtrabackup Works](https://docs.percona.com/percona-xtrabackup/8.0/how_xtrabackup_works.html).

Let us know if those links are helpful.

Thanks,  
Kedar.

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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:** [May 3, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endlessly-prints-log-scanned-up-to-xxx/21828/3 "2023-05-03T16:43:39Z")

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Hello @axel,  
Do you have any MyISAM tables? I also see you are missing `--parallel N` option in your command. Without this option, xtrabackup is essentially single-threaded and thus your backup will be slow overall.

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**Author:** ![Stateros](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/stateros/32/2490_2.png) [@Stateros](https://forums.percona.com/u/Stateros)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-endlessly-prints-log-scanned-up-to-xxx/21828/4 "2023-05-07T16:23:51Z")

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I faced a similar issue during migration up to 8.0.30 and the next 8.0.32. Check my situation if it’s applicable to you. [Xtrabackup 8.0.30 issue. [ERROR] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] read\_logfile() failed](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-8-0-30-issue-error-my-011825-xtrabackup-read-logfile-failed/21184)