# xtrabackup using stream **URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-using-stream/6271 **Category:** Percona XtraBackup **Created:** [March 26, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-using-stream/6271 "2018-03-26T20:20:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![thantanenorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@thantanenorn](https://forums.percona.com/u/thantanenorn) #### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtrabackup-using-stream/6271/1 "2018-03-26T20:20:29Z")
I’m new to percona xtrabackup and I’ve been trying to perform a full backup stream from my local ( test server around 600GB ) to remote server. I just have some questions and I need guides, and I think this is the best place . I have this command which I executed in my local innobackupex --user=user --password=password --stream=tar /which/directory/ | pigz | ssh user@10.11.12.13 “cat - \> /mybackup/backup.tar.gz” My questions are : [LIST] [\*]My log scan is not changing / increasing [/LIST] > > log scanned up to (270477048535) > > log scanned up to (270477048535) > > log scanned up to (270477048535) > > log scanned up to (270477048535) > > log scanned up to (270477048535) I’ve read a comment before and someone says log scan will not increase if no one is using the database. ( Yes, no one is using the database ) [LIST] [_]It’s been running for a while. [/LIST] I’ve tried to use xtrabackup to a local test server with around 1.7TB and finished in just a few hours. Is this because I’m using stream that’s why it is slow ? [LIST] [_]What is the purpose of "/which/directory/" in my command? Is it going to store the file in /which/directory/ first and then transfer to my remote server ? Why do I have to specify a directory? [/LIST] [LIST] [\*]No created file on my local server /which/directory/ and to my remote server /mybackup/. [/LIST] Am I doing something wrong ? Is there a much easier way to perform this? My only goal is to backup my local database to a remote server, I’m doing this stream because I don’t have enough disk space to store my backup locally. I’m using MariaDB 5.5 and Percona xtrabackup 2.2 Can anyone help me ? Thanks in advance .