How password can be prompted in percona xtrabackup

Question

How password can be prompted while using percona xtrabackup.--ask-pass option is not working with xtrabackup. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I donot think there is --ask-pass in xtrabackup! You might want to write a wrapper shell script which will

echo enter mysql password read -s pw

and then pass it as --password=$pw.