Automating Percona's XtraBackup (opens in new tab)

Percona’s XtraBackup is a beautiful tool that allows for the backup and restoration of MySQL databases. From the documentation: The Percona XtraBackup tools provide a method of performing a hot backup of your MySQL data while the system is running. Percona XtraBackup is a free, online, open source, complete database backups solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure full backups on transa...