We recently tested the PostgreSQL backup tool pg_basebackup and were very impressed with its remote backup functionality, which allows for both physical local and physical remote backups.
This led us to wonder whether a physical remote backup is also possible using the “new” MySQL Server Clone feature, which was introduced in MySQL 8.0.17 (July 2019).
The MySQL Clone operation can be used to create both a local and a remote copy of the database. The original idea behind this feature was likely to …
