There’s no doubt about it – if you’ve ever heard of Percona, you’ve heard of XtraBackup as well. XtraBackup is one of the primary Percona’s offerings in the backup space: the tool is famous amongst DBAs as one of the primary open-source utilities to take hot backups. The tool is known to avoid locking databases during its backup procedures – of course, it has a couple of limitations unique to itself, but that’s not an obstacle for experienced database administrators across the globe: the tool is loved by pretty much everyone who uses it, and with Percona at its side,