Although xtrabackup directly supports compressed innodb tables, streaming support will fail with tar4ibd. This has been reported on the mailing list, but I didn't see an open bug report.
# tar4ibd -c test/data.ibd > /dev/null
The file 'test/data.ibd' may not be InnoDB datafile or may be corrupted.
tar_append_tree("test/data.ibd", "test/data.ibd"): Input/output error
Although xtrabackup directly supports compressed innodb tables, streaming support will fail with tar4ibd. This has been reported on the mailing list, but I didn't see an open bug report.
# tar4ibd -c test/data.ibd > /dev/null tree("test/ data.ibd" , "test/data.ibd"): Input/output error
The file 'test/data.ibd' may not be InnoDB datafile or may be corrupted.
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