Just wanted to reply to this since I am having a similar problem.
I have ran it from a VM running ubuntu linux but Percona still doesn’t work when attempting to back-up from windows using linux remotely.
Using something like this, but it doesn’t work:
This post has an example of why it doesn’t work:
Percona’s answer seems to be to just not use Windows for hosting mysql, unfortunately that’s not a practical answer when you’ve inherited a production mysql database that way.