Comment 0 for bug 1443968

--defaults-group=client_group1 not passed to xtrabackup

/usr/bin/innobackupex --defaults-file=/some_path/backup.my.cnf --defaults-group=client_group1 --slave-info --rsync --
compress --parallel=8 --compress-threads=8 /backup_path/

150414 13:22:57 innobackupex: Connecting to MySQL server with DSN 'dbi:mysql:;mysql_read_default_file=/some_path/backup.my.cnf;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup' (using password: NO).
innobackupex: got a fatal error with the following stacktrace: at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 3003
    main::mysql_connect('abort_on_error', 1) called at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 1539
innobackupex: Error: Failed to connect to MySQL server: DBI connect(';mysql_read_default_file=/some_path/backup.my.cnf;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup','',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 2987

Sample backup.my.cnf values:
[client_group1]
user = backupuser
password = "password"
socket = /socket_path/socket