Percona XtraBackup 1.6 is now available for download and is the current stable release version of XtraBackup. Options Added Added option --extra-lsndir to innobackupex. When specified for the backup phase, the option is passed to xtrabackup, and lsn information is stored with the file in the specified directory. This is needed so that lsn information is preserved during stream backup. (Vadim Tkach