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.
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.