Code review comment for lp:~sergei.glushchenko/percona-xtrabackup/bug711166_part-1.6

Sergei,

On 01.02.12 21:20, Sergei Glushchenko wrote:
> Alexei,
>
>> Sergei,
>>
>> Partial backups can also be created with the --include option of innobackupex
>> (or its xtrabackup equivalent, --tables). That does not seem to be covered by
>> the fix.
>>
>
> --include option passed directly to --tables option of xtrabackup.

Not always. It is handled in innobackupex for streaming backups.

> Each database.table value passed to --tables option considered as regular
> expression. So if we pass --tables=test.test, all partitions of database test
> would be backed up because of test.test matches all files test/test#P#*
> I think it's a good behavior.
>

Consider a case when I have tables 'test' and 'test_table'. So to be
able to backup only 'test', but not 'test_table', I have to use
--tables='test$'. But that won't work if 'test' is partitioned, right?