It’s official, Percona XtraBackup does not support MariaDB 5.2 & 5.3 MySQL yet
Percona XtraBackup tool for non-blocking MySQL InnoDB and XtraDB backups has been out for a while now. There’s been an outstanding bug #733665 logged since March, 2011 with regards to Percona XtraBackup’s innobackupex-1.5.1 script not detecting MariaDB 5.2 and now 5.3 based MySQL forks. When you run Percona XtraBackup’s innobackupex-1.5.1...