Comments - Percona XtraBackup Trigger Restore
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It's a little ambiguous whether you can with the latest version. Until 2.2, innobackupex was needed. This is now deprecated and apparently incorporated into xtrabackup 2.3, but the documentation still refers to the need for innobackupex.