Comment 2 for bug 1450803

Hi!

mysqlhotcopy has been deprecated by upstream (and removed in 5.7). I have a blog post on it here:
http://www.tocker.ca/2014/04/17/proposal-to-deprecate-mysqlhotcopy.html

Most importantly, it will not safely back up InnoDB tables (which is the default storage engine from 5.5+).