Comment 3 for bug 717256

Peter,

I am afraid it is almost full list of mysqld options, which is about 150 names.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Peter Zaitsev <email address hidden> wrote:
> Alexey,
>
> Should not we build a list of options which it needs to ignore ?
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Alexey Kopytov
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>> I hit this bug too, but then realized it is an intended behavior. Since
>> xtrabackup reads some of its options from my.cnf, it has to ignore all
>> options it doesn't know.
>>
>> On the other hand, silently ignoring typos in command line options is
>> definitely not a good idea for a backup utility. I am not sure how this
>> can be resolved. One idea is to parse my.cnf with a custom parser rather
>> than my_getopt.
>>
>> --
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>> developers, which is the registrant for Percona-XtraBackup.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/717256
>>
>> Title:
>>  xtrabackup arguments are not validated
>>
>> Status in Open source backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB:
>>  New
>>
>> Bug description:
>>  Have a look at the arguments I used. A typo in the arguments can cause
>> wrong things to happen (--incremental-dir in this case)
>>  root@lesktop:/data/backups# xtrabackup --prepare --apply-log-only
>> --target-dir=/data/backups/base_xtrabackup/
>> --incremaaaal-dir=/data/backups/inc1/ --i-can-add --whatever-i-want
>>  xtrabackup  Ver 1.4 Rev 193 for 5.1.47 unknown-linux-gnu (x86_64)
>>  xtrabackup: cd to /data/backups/base_xtrabackup/
>>  xtrabackup: This target seems to be already prepared.
>>  xtrabackup: notice: xtrabackup_logfile was already used to '--prepare'.
>>  xtrabackup: Temporary instance for recovery is set as followings.
>>  xtrabackup:   innodb_data_home_dir = ./
>>  xtrabackup:   innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
>>  xtrabackup:   innodb_log_group_home_dir = ./
>>  xtrabackup:   innodb_log_files_in_group = 2
>>  xtrabackup:   innodb_log_file_size = 5242880
>>  xtrabackup: Starting InnoDB instance for recovery.
>>  xtrabackup: Using 104857600 bytes for buffer pool (set by --use-memory
>> parameter)
>>  InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
>>  InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
>>  InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
>>  110211 17:25:22  InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda