Hello, A new question has been asked in "MariaDB Community" by aferrett. Please answer it at http://mariadb.com/kb/en/problem-with-the-galera-wsrep_sst_method-xtrabackup... as the person asking the question may not be subscribed to the mailing list. -------------------------------- We are trying to create a Galera cluster. We have our first node running. We want to use xtrabackup to initialize the 2nd cluster node. We are getting error: 2016-03-04 22:56:20 140441685063424 [ERROR] WSREP: Failed to read 'ready <addr>' from: wsrep_sst_xtrabackup-v2 --role 'joiner' --address '130.9.221.48' --datadir '//opt/app/mysql/data/' --parent '28544' --binlog '//opt/app/mysql/binlogs/mysql-bin' Read: '(null)' 2016-03-04 22:56:20 140441685063424 [ERROR] WSREP: Process completed with error: wsrep_sst_xtrabackup-v2 --role 'joiner' --address '130.9.221.48' --datadir '//opt/app/mysql/data/' --parent '28544' --binlog '//opt/app/mysql/binlogs/mysql-bin' : 1 (Operation not permitted) 2016-03-04 22:56:20 140441697642240 [ERROR] WSREP: Failed to prepare for 'xtrabackup-v2' SST. Unrecoverable. 2016-03-04 22:56:20 140441697642240 [ERROR] Aborting -------------------------------- To view or answer this question please visit: http://mariadb.com/kb/en/problem-with-the-galera-wsrep_sst_method-xtrabackup...