xtrabackup/mariabackup instead of mysqldump

[nunoperalta]

Hey

Are there plans to use xtrabackup for MySQL and mariabackup for MariaDB, instead of mysqldump? (or at least give the option for that)

It's much better and faster, for large databases, and allows incremental backups, etc...

Thank you very much!

[hanjo]

I second this request. In the meantime, for MariaDB it got renamed to mariadb-backup, see here: https://mariadb.com/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup

Incremental backups would be really nice :-)