For years I have been frequenting Chinese restaurants that feature "Mongolian Grill" (or Mongolian BBQ depending on the location). Recently I tried a new place that had (what they called) "Hibachi", which looked very similar, and I originally mistook for 'the same'. When I inquired about the Mongolian grill I was informed that there is a difference. While the host went on about what those differences are I am afraid that the subtleties were "lost in translation".

Can someone clarify for me what the differences are?


Question: Does MySQL Enterprise Backup work across Operating Systems?
Answer: MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) is designed to create a point-in-time snapshot of data but only backs up data locally. If the dataset is relatively small, try setting up an NFS share and run MySQL Enterprise Backup with the NFS share as the Target. Of course, there may be some risk involved.

Please check out these links on this subject for further research on MEB


http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/3.6/en/meb-backup-streaming.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-enterprise-backup/3.6/en/meb-backup-single-file.html
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?28,409106,410496#msg-410496


Using MEB with data on server with MacOS and Linux OS on the Target Server? One can only guess. Personally, if I had to port mysql data from one OS to another I would recommend this:


Run mysqldump from MacOS to sqldump.sql
Install mysql on Linux
Load sqldump.sql into Linux
Setup replication between servers

MacOS running mysql as Master
Linux running mysql as Slave



From here, just install MEB on the Linux Box (For free version, use XtraBackup) and run your MEB backups locally on the Linux.