Hi, I am using percona-xtrabackup-2.0.2’s innobackupex to do a full backup of my existing mysql database. Its giving me the error " xtrabackup: Error: Please set parameter ‘datadir’ ". Why do we need to mention datadir? Does not it pickit up from my.cnf? Please help its very urgent

xtrabackup: Error: Please set parameter 'datadir'

amritansu September 6, 2012, 10:22am 3

Some one please suggest

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