# Xtrabackup prepare warning

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**Category:** Percona XtraBackup\
**Created:** [May 12, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-prepare-warning/2672 "2013-05-12T21:00:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmhong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@jmhong](https://forums.percona.com/u/jmhong)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-prepare-warning/2672/1 "2013-05-12T21:00:29Z")

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Hi,  
I tried to compressed backup & recovery test.  
The backup compression was successfully finished. But, When I execute “prepare” the backup-set, it was failed.  
(It could not found binary log file and position. )

- MySQL version is 5.6.10
- xtrabackup-2.0.6

I hope someone who know about this warning, help me.

1. When I tried backup, I executed this command.

./percona-xtrabackup-2.0.6/bin/xtrabackup\_56 --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --target-dir=/backup1/Compress\_Back --backup --compress

./xtrabackup\_56 version 2.0.6 for MySQL server 5.6.10 Linux (x86\_64) (revision id: undefined)  
xtrabackup: uses posix\_fadvise().  
xtrabackup: cd to /data1/mysql  
xtrabackup: Target instance is assumed as followings.  
xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_home\_dir =  
xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_file\_path = /data1/ibdata1:5G;  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_group\_home\_dir = /data1/mysqllog  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_files\_in\_group = 3  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_file\_size = 225443840  
2013-05-13 10:49:19 2ab938f72f90 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO

> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > [01] Compressing /data1/ibdata1 to /backup1/Compress\_Back/ibdata1.qp  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./hong/ttt.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./hong/ttt.ibd.qp  
> > log scanned up to (79082747)  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./hong/xxx.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./hong/xxx.ibd.qp  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./mysql/slave\_worker\_info.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./mysql/slave\_worker\_info.ibd.qp  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./mysql/slave\_master\_info.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./mysql/slave\_master\_info.ibd.qp  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./mysql/slave\_relay\_log\_info.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./mysql/slave\_relay\_log\_info.ibd.qp  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./mysql/innodb\_index\_stats.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./mysql/innodb\_index\_stats.ibd.qp  
> > [01] …done  
> > [01] Compressing ./mysql/innodb\_table\_stats.ibd to /backup1/Compress\_Back/./mysql/innodb\_table\_stats.ibd.qp  
> > [01] …done  
> > xtrabackup: The latest check point (for incremental): ‘79082747’  
> > xtrabackup: Stopping log copying thread.  
> > .\>\> log scanned up to (79082747)

1. execute prepare command, it was failed.

./percona-xtrabackup-2.0.6/bin/xtrabackup\_56 --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --target-dir=/backup1/Compress\_Back --prepare  
./xtrabackup\_56 version 2.0.6 for MySQL server 5.6.10 Linux (x86\_64) (revision id: undefined)  
xtrabackup: cd to /backup1/Compress\_Back  
xtrabackup: This target seems to be already prepared.  
xtrabackup: notice: xtrabackup\_logfile was already used to ‘–prepare’.  
xtrabackup: Temporary instance for recovery is set as followings.  
xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_home\_dir = ./  
xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_file\_path = /data1/ibdata1:5G;  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_group\_home\_dir = ./  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_files\_in\_group = 3  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_file\_size = 225443840  
2013-05-13 10:53:51 2ab24e32ef90 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO  
xtrabackup: Temporary instance for recovery is set as followings.  
xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_home\_dir = ./  
xtrabackup: innodb\_data\_file\_path = /data1/ibdata1:5G;  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_group\_home\_dir = ./  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_files\_in\_group = 3  
xtrabackup: innodb\_log\_file\_size = 225443840  
2013-05-13 10:53:51 2ab24e32ef90 InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO  
xtrabackup: Starting InnoDB instance for recovery.  
xtrabackup: Using 104857600 bytes for buffer pool (set by --use-memory parameter)  
InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100 200  
InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100 200  
InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100 200

[notice (again)]  
[COLOR=#FF0000]If you use binary log and don’t use any hack of group commit,  
[COLOR=#FF0000]the binary log position seems to be:

[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: ################################################## ######  
[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: # !!WARNING!! #  
[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: # The transaction log file is corrupted. #  
[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: # The log was not applied to the intended LSN! #  
[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: ################################################## ######  
[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: The intended lsn is 79082747  
[COLOR=#FF0000]xtrabackup: starting shutdown with innodb\_fast\_shutdown = 1

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**Author:** ![gmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gmouse](https://forums.percona.com/u/gmouse)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-prepare-warning/2672/2 "2013-05-13T05:40:56Z")

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See [url][Percona XtraBackup](http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/howtos/recipes_ibkx_compressed.html%5B/url%5D)

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**Author:** ![jmhong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@jmhong](https://forums.percona.com/u/jmhong)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-prepare-warning/2672/3 "2013-05-13T19:18:00Z")

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Can I use only innobackupex when compress the backup-set ? I’d like to use xtrabackup binary… ( innodb tables backup only )
