[root@arara390 ~]# innobackupex /home/backup/percona
InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy
and Percona Ireland Ltd 2009-2012. All Rights Reserved.
This software is published under
the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991.
130704 10:29:28 innobackupex: Connecting to MySQL server with DSN 'dbi:mysql:;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup' (using password: NO).
130704 10:29:28 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 5.5.28-MariaDB-log
Unknown suffix '/' used for variable 'log-copy-interval' (value '/var/log/mysqld.log')
xtrabackup_55: Error while setting value '/var/log/mysqld.log' to 'log-copy-interval'
innobackupex: fatal error: no 'mysqld' group in MySQL options
With version 2.1 this is not a warning message, but and error message, and backup is not done:
Unknown suffix '/' used for variable 'log-copy-interval' (value '/var/log/mysql/mysql.log')
xtrabackup_55: Error while setting value '/var/log/mysql/mysql.log' to 'log-copy-interval'
BTW for old servers for which “log” is the correct way to set it up:
innobackupex: Error: Support for MySQL 5.1 with builtin InnoDB (not the plugin) was removed in Percona XtraBackup 2.1. The last version to support MySQL 5.1 with builtin InnoDB was Percona XtraBackup 2.0. at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 389.