Joshi, I have upgraded the xtrabackup to version 2.2.5 and initiated the incremental backup. Currently the incremental backup has been completed successfully and the apply-log process is in progress. I will update you the details. # /usr/bin/xtrabackup -v /usr/bin/xtrabackup version 2.2.5 based on MySQL server 5.6.21 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: ) On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Nilnandan Joshi <