escape \% in cron

Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash \, will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input.

Author: baldurmen

manifests/backup/xtrabackup.pp

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 
   $daily_cron_data = ($incremental_backups) ? {
     true  => {
-      'directories' => "--incremental-basedir=${backupdir} --target-dir=${backupdir}/$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S)",
+      'directories' => "--incremental-basedir=${backupdir} --target-dir=${backupdir}/$(date +\\%F_\\%H-\\%M-\\%S)",
       'weekday'     => '1-6',
     },
     false => {

spec/classes/mysql_backup_xtrabackup_spec.rb

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class { 'mysql::server': }
           is_expected.to contain_cron('xtrabackup-daily')
             .with(
               ensure: 'present',
-              command: '/usr/local/sbin/xtrabackup.sh --incremental-basedir=/tmp --target-dir=/tmp/$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S) --backup',
+              command: '/usr/local/sbin/xtrabackup.sh --incremental-basedir=/tmp --target-dir=/tmp/$(date +\%F_\%H-\%M-\%S) --backup',
               user: 'root',
               hour: '23',
               minute: '5',
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class { 'mysql::server': }
           is_expected.to contain_cron('xtrabackup-daily')
             .with(
               ensure: 'present',
-              command: '/usr/local/sbin/xtrabackup.sh --incremental-basedir=/tmp --target-dir=/tmp/$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S) --backup --skip-ssl',
+              command: '/usr/local/sbin/xtrabackup.sh --incremental-basedir=/tmp --target-dir=/tmp/$(date +\%F_\%H-\%M-\%S) --backup --skip-ssl',
               user: 'root',
               hour: '23',
               minute: '5',