You convinced me (I convinced myself?): I now use mariadb-backup instead, as per the lines in my patch in MDEV-33187:
Seems mariadb-hotcopy is deprecated so maybe we should be using mariabackup? I guess this is progress: why use a simple tool, when a complex one is almost as good? Thanks, Paul -- Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia Join the Union and fight for a better University: www.nteu.au/join