Updated xtrabackup to 2.2.7 seems like it helped a little bit. It now doesn't crash on every execution, however it still crashes with following error: 141216 11:23:05 innobackupex: Restarting xtrabackup with command: xtrabackup --defaults-file="/mnt/backup/client_dbs_innodb/db29-slave/12-16-2014_10-55-34/backup-my.cnf" --defaults-group="mysqld" --prepare --target-dir=/mnt/backup/client_dbs_innodb/db29-slave/12-16-2014_10-55-34 --use-memory=1G for creating ib_logfile* xtrabackup version 2.2.7 based on MySQL server 5.6.21 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: ) xtrabackup: cd to /mnt/backup/client_dbs_innodb/db29-slave/12-16-2014_10-55-34 xtrabackup: This target seems to be already prepared. xtrabackup: notice: xtrabackup_logfile was already used to '--prepare'. xtrabackup: using the following InnoDB configuration for recovery: xtrabackup: innodb_data_home_dir = ./ xtrabackup: innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:12M:autoextend xtrabackup: innodb_log_group_home_dir = ./ xtrabackup: innodb_log_files_in_group = 2 xtrabackup: innodb_log_file_size = 134217728 xtrabackup: using the following InnoDB configuration for recovery: xtrabackup: innodb_data_home_dir = ./ xtrabackup: innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:12M:autoextend xtrabackup: innodb_log_group_home_dir = ./ xtrabackup: innodb_log_files_in_group = 2 xtrabackup: innodb_log_file_size = 134217728 xtrabackup: Starting InnoDB instance for recovery. xtrabackup: Using 1073741824 bytes for buffer pool (set by --use-memory parameter) InnoDB: Using atomics to ref count buffer pool pages InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins InnoDB: Memory barrier is not used InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3 InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 1.0G InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile101 size to 128 MB InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100 InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 128 MB InnoDB: Progress in MB: 100 InnoDB: Renaming log file ./ib_logfile101 to ./ib_logfile0 InnoDB: New log files created, LSN=487320310587 InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active. InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start InnoDB: 5.6.21 started; log sequence number 487320310796 [notice (again)] If you use binary log and don't use any hack of group commit, the binary log position seems to be: InnoDB: Last MySQL binlog file position 0 33456780, file name mysql-bin.001793 xtrabackup: starting shutdown with innodb_fast_shutdown = 1 10:23:21 UTC - xtrabackup got signal 11 ; This could be because you hit a bug or data is corrupted. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware. We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong and this may fail. Thread pointer: 0x0 Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went terribly wrong... stack_bottom = 0 thread_stack 0x10000 xtrabackup(my_print_stacktrace+0x35) [0x9f34bc] xtrabackup(handle_fatal_signal+0x2bb) [0x7f66f3] /lib64/libpthread.so.0() [0x300c40f710] Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup innobackupex: got a fatal error with the following stacktrace: at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 2645 main::apply_log() called at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 1561 innobackupex: Error: innobackupex: xtrabackup (2nd execution) failed at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 2645.