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 scan…

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/ I also invite you to go through How Xtrabackup Works . Let us know if those links are helpful. Thanks, Kedar.

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.

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

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Stateros May 7, 2023, 4:23pm 4

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

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