Cannot backup a remote MySQL database

[bryanagee]

You can specify a host in the config, but only mysqldump uses it. When the incremental backup looks at the binlogs, it only looks at the local ones. Possible fixes include:

1. mounting the remote binlog directory via sshfs
2. running the tool on the target, and ssh'ing the compressed, encrypted file to the bu server
3. using the mysql client to read the binlogs remotely.

[kyleterry]

I acknowledge this issue exists.