# Prepare an individual partitions backup For preparing partial backups, the procedure is analogous to restoring individual tables. Apply the logs and use xtrabackup `--export`: ```{.bash data-prompt="$"} $ xtrabackup --apply-log --export /mnt/backup/2012-08-28_10-29-09 ``` You may see warnings in the output about tables that do not exist. This happens because *InnoDB*-based engines stores its data dictionary inside the tablespace files. *xtrabackup* removes the missing tables (those that haven’t been selected in the partial backup) from the data dictionary in order to avoid future warnings or errors. The next step is to [restore]() the backup.