innobackupex does not process --defaults-file

[Jonathan Mickle]

Using innobackupex to backup the databases, with mysql Server version: 5.2.3-MariaDB-tokudb-5.2.7-38674-log (MariaDB - http://mariadb.com/ Tokutek 5.2.7-38674)

Verified the problem exists in percona-xtrabackup packages 1.4->2.0.2 although reverting back down to 1.2 works properly

innobackupex --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --password . /mnt/backups/data/latest

InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy
and Percona Inc 2009-2012.  All Rights Reserved.

This software is published under
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.

120821 21:01:03  innobackupex: Starting mysql with options:  --defaults-file='/etc/mysql/my.cnf' --password=xxxxxxxx --unbuffered --
120821 21:01:03  innobackupex: Connected to database with mysql child process (pid=14805)
120821 21:01:09  innobackupex: Connection to database server closed
IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully.
           At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex
           prints "completed OK!".

innobackupex: Using mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.1
innobackupex: Using mysql server version Copyright 2000-2008 MySQL AB, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

sh: Illegal option --
innobackupex: fatal error: no 'mysqld' group in MySQL options

the my.cnf contains proper settings and I have verified it works in correlation to previous bugs reported (I cant remmeber the bug id)

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

MariaDB 5.2 is not currently supported by XtraBackup. This is most likely a duplicate of bug #733665, though the symptoms are a bit different.