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From time to time my mariadb backups (11.8.5 in my case) failed with

Fatal error: bareosfd: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/bareos/plugins/BareosFdWrapper.py", line 69, in handle_plugin_event
    return bareos_fd_plugin_object.handle_plugin_event(event)
  File "/usr/lib64/bareos/plugins/BareosFdPluginBaseclass.py", line 422, in handle_plugin_event
    return self.start_backup_job()
  File "/usr/lib64/bareos/plugins/bareos-fd-mariabackup.py", line 333, in start_backup_job
    innodb_status = self.get_lsn_by_command()
  File "/usr/lib64/bareos/plugins/bareos-fd-mariabackup.py", line 195, in get_lsn_by_command
    ret = check_output(get_lsn_cmd).decode()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xed in position 22371: invalid continuation byte

I guess it's best to just ignore non-decodeable data as it's probably irrelevant for extracting the LSN.

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