innobackupex --datadir what about this ?

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Hi,

what about --datadir ?
It can be set in xtrabackup command-line options but how to pass this options from innobackupex script ?
Please Help !!!

Brumia

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Hi,

Generally, you don’t need to specify --datadir with innobackupex script because it will find datadir by itself. But still you want to give than you can use --defaults-file=/path/to/my.cnf where datadir will be mentioned OR you can create a separate options file. Check here.
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but why innobackupex or xtrabackup didnt get datadir from instance variable (show variables like ‘%datadir%’) ?