Hi,

it seems that i cant pass --tmpdir to innobackupex.

Basically tmpdir is read from my.cnf tmpdir variable, right?

> Alexey Kopytov <email address hidden> kirjoitti 21.10.2013 kello 12.41:
> 
> This is also not a recent regression -- the same limitation applies to
> 2.0, but it is unlikely it will be fixed in that branch.
> 
> ** Changed in: percona-xtrabackup/2.1
>       Status: New => Triaged
> 
> ** Changed in: percona-xtrabackup/2.1
>   Importance: Undecided => Medium
> 
> ** Changed in: percona-xtrabackup/2.2
>       Status: New => Triaged
> 
> ** Changed in: percona-xtrabackup/2.2
>   Importance: Undecided => Medium
> 
> ** Also affects: percona-xtrabackup/2.0
>   Importance: Undecided
>       Status: New
> 
> ** Changed in: percona-xtrabackup/2.0
>       Status: New => Won't Fix
> 
> ** Summary changed:
> 
> - Xtrabackup 2.1.5 (since 2.1.4) leaves unfinished backups around
> + Concurrent XtraBackup instances fail with same --tmpdir
> 
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> Title:
>  Concurrent XtraBackup instances fail with same --tmpdir
> 
> Status in Percona XtraBackup:
>  Triaged
> Status in Percona XtraBackup 2.0 series:
>  Won't Fix
> Status in Percona XtraBackup 2.1 series:
>  Triaged
> Status in Percona XtraBackup 2.2 series:
>  Triaged
> 
> Bug description:
>  Hey,
> 
>  I have a script that uses innobackupex to backup MariaDB 5.5.32 database instances (different datadirs and
>  separate processes). One script per database instance.
> 
>  2 backups had been scheduled to be run at the same time from 2 different instances at 1:00 AM
>  I have rescheduled the backups to different times to see if it has any difference.
> 
>  Since 2.1.4 version, even in 2.1.5, backups sometimes don't get finished like normally
>  and innobackupex returns an error code.
> 
> 
>  innobackupex failed:
> 
>  ---------- ERROR OUTPUT from innobackupex ----------
> 
>  InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy
>  and Percona LLC and/or its affiliates 2009-2013.  All Rights Reserved.
> 
>  This software is published under
>  the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.
> 
>  131019 01:00:01  innobackupex: Connecting to MySQL server with DSN 'dbi:mysql:;mysql_read_default_file=/mariadb1/conf/my.cnf;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup' as 'root'  (using password: YES).
>  131019 01:00:01  innobackupex: Connected to MySQL server
>  IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully.
>             At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex
>             prints "completed OK!".
> 
>  innobackupex: Using mysql server version 5.5.32-MariaDB-log
> 
>  innobackupex: Created backup directory
>  /mariadb1/backup/2013-10-19_01-00-01
> 
>  131019 01:00:01  innobackupex: Starting ibbackup with command: xtrabackup_55  --defaults-file="/mariadb1/conf/my.cnf"  --defaults-group="mysqld" --backup --suspend-at-end --target-dir=/mariadb1/backup/2013-10-19_01-00-01 --tmpdir=/var/tmp
>  innobackupex: Waiting for ibbackup (pid=27051) to suspend
>  innobackupex: Suspend file '/mariadb1/backup/2013-10-19_01-00-01/xtrabackup_suspended_2'
> 
>  xtrabackup_55 version 2.1.5 for Percona Server 5.5.31 Linux (x86_64) (revision id: 680)
>  xtrabackup: uses posix_fadvise().
>  xtrabackup: cd to /mariadb1/data
>  xtrabackup: using the following InnoDB configuration:
>  xtrabackup:   innodb_data_home_dir = /mariadb1/data
>  xtrabackup:   innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
>  xtrabackup:   innodb_log_group_home_dir = /mariadb1/data
>  xtrabackup:   innodb_log_files_in_group = 2
>  xtrabackup:   innodb_log_file_size = 134217728
>  xtrabackup: using O_DIRECT
>>> log scanned up to (21810149)
>  [01] Copying /mariadb1/data/ibdata1 to /mariadb1/backup/2013-10-19_01-00-01/ibdata1
>  [01]        ...done
>>> log scanned up to (21810149)
>  xtrabackup: Creating suspend file '/mariadb1/backup/2013-10-19_01-00-01/xtrabackup_suspended_2' with pid '27051'
>  print() on closed filehandle XTRABACKUP_PID at /mariabin/percona-xtrabackup/bin/innobackupex line 2602.
>  131019 01:00:03  innobackupex: Waiting for ibbackup (pid=27051) to finish
> 
> 
>  So xtrabackup creates an suspend file, and innobackupex starts waiting on ibbackup.
>  Then there's a print() on closed filehandle.
> 
>  When I check these processes they're no longer present during the day
>  time.
> 
>  A bug  or two backups cant run at the same time limitation in
>  innobackupex?
> 
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