Probably a better solution than the lock file would be to namespace the temporary directory. For this solution, innobackupex would use mktemp to create a temporary directory within the tmpdir, and there would be no possibility of conflicts between separate instances of innobackupex.
Probably a better solution than the lock file would be to namespace the temporary directory. For this solution, innobackupex would use mktemp to create a temporary directory within the tmpdir, and there would be no possibility of conflicts between separate instances of innobackupex.