# XtraBackup fails

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892>\
**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [August 20, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892 "2013-08-20T06:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![WillA\_A\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/76d3ee/32.png) [@WillA\_A\_A](https://forums.percona.com/u/WillA_A_A)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892/1 "2013-08-20T06:27:44Z")

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Hello,

I’m using XtraBackup on CentOS-6.4 with MySQL-5.5.32 from [www.mysql.de](http://www.mysql.de).

Sometimes my backup jobs crashing because the backup target is running out of space.

My backup space has 50GB and one backup job is using 6.8GB. I have no history, every job is overwriting the backup.

/usr/bin/innobackupex-1.5.1 --user=root --password=… --no-timestamp --databases=mydatabase --include=$quaterlyTables /var/backups/$myserver/quaterly/${quaterly}/  
/usr/bin/innobackupex-1.5.1 --apply-log /var/backups/$myserver/quaterly/${quaterly}/

Software:  
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)  
Kernel \r on an \m  
2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86\_64  
percona-xtrabackup-2.1.4-656.rhel6.x86\_64  
InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy  
and Percona Ireland Ltd 2009-2012. All Rights Reserved.

Regards - Willi

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**Author:** ![niljoshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/niljoshi/32/16889_2.png) [@niljoshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/niljoshi)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892/2 "2013-08-21T01:49:39Z")

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Hi,

Can you provide some more information like full backup log of innobackupex, the output of “df -h” and “du -csh /var/backup” on that server? We also need to identify that while taking backup you are getting this error or while running --apply-log.

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**Author:** ![mariasam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@mariasam](https://forums.percona.com/u/mariasam)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892/3 "2013-09-04T01:29:36Z")

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I found out these problems came when I created the backups with “–compact” option. The documentation are wrong about how to do restore, and theres an example ‘find’ which doesn’t find any compressed files… 🙂

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**Author:** ![chrisjacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chrisjacob](https://forums.percona.com/u/chrisjacob)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892/4 "2013-12-23T01:26:41Z")

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I am using Cent OS 6.5 version as my server OS as it is the most XtraBackup in the system. Is there any compatibility issues with these two? Can I go ahead and install the software straight?

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**Author:** ![mirfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mirfan/32/16890_2.png) [@mirfan](https://forums.percona.com/u/mirfan)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-fails/2892/5 "2013-12-23T03:02:23Z")

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Xtrabackup works absolutely fine on CentOS 6. For compact backups i would suggest to check this blogpost from niljoshi [url][http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/06/26/limited-disk-space-compact-backups-with-percona-xtrabackup-2-1/[/url]](http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/06/26/limited-disk-space-compact-backups-with-percona-xtrabackup-2-1/%5B/url%5D)  
Also, post the stuff which already asked by niljoshi to identify where the problem lies. Probably it’s failing on prepare stage because of secondary indexes size may be.