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How to force a program to write log into standard output In spite of
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Background
Today I am trying perconna's innobackupex with this command:

innobackupex --stream=xbstream /root/backup/ > /root/backup/backup.xbstream

However, I noticed logs show up on my terminal:

...
IMPORTANT: Please check that the backup run completes successfully.
At the end of a successful backup run innobackupex
prints "completed OK!".

230202 15:52:24 Connecting to MySQL server host: 127.0.0.1, user: root, password: set, port: 3306, socket: not set
...
Confusion
Shouldn't the redirection > writes the standard output to /root/backup/backup.xbstream? Why I can
still see logs on terminal?
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