xtrabackup doesn't handle shell metacharacters
Bug #665308 reported by
Baron Schwartz
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percona XtraBackup moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PXB |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
| 2.0 |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| 2.1 |
Triaged
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
| 2.2 |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
| 2.3 |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is xtrabackup 1.2:
[baron@ginger 5.1.41]$ xtrabackup --datadir=data --backup --target-
... snip ....
xtrabackup: Error: cannot mkdir 2: ~/test-backup
It should make the backups in my home directory.
| Changed in percona-xtrabackup: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Valentine Gostev (core-longbow) |
Revision history for this message
| Valentine Gostev (longbow) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in percona-xtrabackup: | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
Revision history for this message
| Alexey Kopytov (akopytov) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in percona-xtrabackup: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in percona-xtrabackup: | |
| status: | Won't Fix → Confirmed |
| assignee: | Valentine Gostev (core-longbow) → nobody |
| Changed in percona-xtrabackup: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| tags: | added: low-hanging-fruit |
Revision history for this message
| Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote | #3 |
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Baron,
tilde is not replaced with $HOME in C code. It should be done separately. If you need to use such paths, please try innobackupex - it works well there.