CREATE TABLE t(i int) ENGINE=InnoDB PARTITION BY RANGE (i) (PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (100), PARTITION P1 VALUES LESS THAN (200), PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (300) DATA DIRECTORY = 'MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/partitdata', PARTITION p3 VALUES LESS THAN (400) DATA DIRECTORY = 'MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/partitdata', PARTITION p4 VALUES LESS THAN MAXVALUE); INSERT INTO t VALUES (1), (101), (201), (301), (401); DROP TABLE t; # shutdown server # remove datadir # xtrabackup move back # restart SELECT * FROM t; i 1 101 201 301 401 DROP TABLE t;