Comment 17 for bug 1707918

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Sergei Glushchenko (sergei.glushchenko) wrote :

xbstream does not compress anything unless you tell it to.

xtrabackup --backup --stream=xbstream > /dev/null

is faster than

xtrabackup --backup --stream=tar > /dev/null

It seems that libarchive which we using is not very efficient.