Comment 19 for bug 995587

I can confirm this is still an issue. Deckard's solution helped, but it only looks at the DBEXCLUDE parameter if you are also setting the configuration parameter DBNAMES line to "all" in the /etc/default/automysqlbackup file.

By default, the configuration file has these defaults:

 DBNAMES=`mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf --execute="SHOW DATABASES" | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v ^Database$ | grep -v ^mysql$ | tr \\\r\\\n ,\ `

 DBEXCLUDE="information_schema"

They could be changed to this to fix the issue:

 DBNAMES="all"

 DBEXCLUDE="information_schema performance_schema"