Thanks for reporting this bug. I've created an issue in github to track this.
https://github.com/holland-backup/holland/issues/331 ** Bug watch added: github.com/holland-backup/holland/issues #331 https://github.com/holland-backup/holland/issues/331 ** Changed in: holland-backup Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: holland-backup Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Holland Build, which is subscribed to holland-backup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925270 Title: Errors when passwords contain unicode Status in holland-backup: Confirmed Bug description: Conditions: - Holland 1.1.22 - Password containing "£" as 15th character - Password in ~/.my.cnf, not in Holland config files - mysqldump Ver 8.0.24 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL) Behavior observed: # holland bk --dry-run Holland 1.1.22 started with pid 8717 --- Starting dry run --- Creating backup path /var/spool/holland/default/20210420_194301 Estimating size of mysqldump backup Failed to connect to database MySQL Error 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128) Backup failed after 0.01 seconds Backup failed: Failed backup: default --- Ending dry run --- mysqldmup alone works fine. Google says this particular error possibly has to do with Python's str() doing an implicit encode, and perhaps explicit encode/decodes are better. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/holland-backup/+bug/1925270/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~holland-coredev Post to : holland-coredev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~holland-coredev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
