# xtrabackup prepare is very slow

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-prepare-is-very-slow/6396 "2018-06-04T04:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![prasanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@prasanth](https://forums.percona.com/u/prasanth)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-prepare-is-very-slow/6396/1 "2018-06-04T04:35:00Z")

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hi team,  
i am using xtrabackup 2.4 with mysql 5.7 in centos 6 . initially preparing was very fast. after exporting and importing some databases it is very slow.  
please can somebody explain me why it is very slow???