error with innobackupex-1.5.1

MySQL & MariaDB Percona XtraBackup
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my script is:
ssh -o “StrictHostKeyChecking no” host1 ‘innobackupex-1.5.1 --stream=tar --throttle=500 --socket=/data/var/mysql.sock --defaults-file=/root/my.cnf --user=root --password= --slave-info /data/ | nc 10.3.23.55 80’ < /dev/null > /data/xtrabackup.log 2>&1
the error is:
innobackupex-1.5.1: Created backup directory /data
innobackupex-1.5.1: Error: Failed to stream ‘backup-my.cnf’: Inappropriate ioctl for device at /usr/bin/innobackupex-1.5.1 line 542.

sometimes it is right,sometimes this meet this error.
thank you.

2

Please file a bug at Launchpad in the percona-xtrabackup project.

3

It looks like this is due to permission problems regarding the destination where innobackupex will write. It solved the problem for me at least running the script in sudo.