Affected with --parallel=1000000000000 option, with xtrabackup 2.3.2: [root@node1 mysql]# innobackupex --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --user=root --password=12345 --port=3306 --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --parallel=1000000000000 /home/MySQL-AutoXtraBackup/backup_dir/full/ Warning: option 'parallel': signed value 1000000000000 adjusted to 2147483647 151026 11:13:36 innobackupex: Starting the backup operation IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully. At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex prints "completed OK!". 151026 11:13:36 version_check Connecting to MySQL server with DSN 'dbi:mysql:;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup;port=3306;mysql_socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' as 'root' (using password: YES). 151026 11:13:36 version_check Connected to MySQL server 151026 11:13:36 version_check Executing a version check against the server... 151026 11:13:36 version_check Done. 151026 11:13:36 Connecting to MySQL server host: localhost, user: root, password: set, port: 3306, socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Using server version 5.6.26-74.0-log innobackupex version 2.3.2 based on MySQL server 5.6.24 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: 306a2e0) xtrabackup: uses posix_fadvise(). xtrabackup: cd to /var/lib/mysql xtrabackup: open files limit requested 0, set to 1024 xtrabackup: using the following InnoDB configuration: 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 = 50331648 151026 11:13:36 >> log scanned up to (1223269683) xtrabackup: Generating a list of tablespaces xtrabackup: Starting 2147483647 threads for parallel data files transfer 2015-10-26 11:13:37 7f938241e740 InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 140271522277184 in file ut0mem.cc line 105 InnoDB: Failing assertion: ret || !assert_on_error InnoDB: We intentionally generate a memory trap. InnoDB: Submit a detailed bug report to http://bugs.mysql.com. InnoDB: If you get repeated assertion failures or crashes, even InnoDB: immediately after the mysqld startup, there may be InnoDB: corruption in the InnoDB tablespace. Please refer to InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html InnoDB: about forcing recovery. 07:13:37 UTC - xtrabackup got signal 6 ; 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 innobackupex(my_print_stacktrace+0x2e) [0x927d2e] innobackupex(handle_fatal_signal+0x262) [0x7214b2] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0xf130) [0x7f9381ffe130] /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x37) [0x7f938076b5d7] /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x148) [0x7f938076ccc8] innobackupex(ut_malloc_low(unsigned long, unsigned long)+0x13c) [0x6d285c] innobackupex(xtrabackup_backup_func()+0xa8d) [0x599ccd] innobackupex(main+0xa95) [0x57de65] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f9380757af5] innobackupex() [0x591bc9]