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Created by: jizaymes

I'm in the process of updating from 5.1 to 5.2. In my config/database.yml, my password for the database was something like

  password: "<abc123!"

When doing a backup, it would seemingly process the < as part of an IO redirection

root@gitlab:/home/git/gitlab# sudo -u git -H RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake gitlab:backup:create
Dumping database ... 
sh: 1: cannot open abc123!: No such file
done

I'm not sure if this is a gitlab thing or a general railes thing but I wanted to raise the topic.

After changing the database password to remove the <, this same command completes successfully.