-- Created a backup user CREATE USER 'backupuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword'; GRANT RELOAD, PROCESS, LOCK TABLES, BINLOG MONITOR ON *.* TO 'backupuser'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; -- Created a table as below CREATE TABLE tab ( id int, str varchar(50) ) ENGINE=InnoDB ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED; let $targetdir=/mysqltest_vardir/backup; -- Full Backup mariabackup --backup \ --target-dir=$targetdir \ --user=backupuser --password=mypassword -- Incremental backup after some DML mariabackup --backup \ --target-dir=/infradba/inc1 \ --incremental-basedir=$targetdir \ --user=backupuser --password=mypassword -- Prepare mariabackup --prepare --target-dir=$targetdir -- Apply the incremental changes to the base full backup (At this step, hits the error, [ERROR] mysqld got signal 11 ) mariabackup --prepare --target-dir=$targetdir --incremental-dir=/infradba/inc1