I currently work in a MySQL on Windows based environment (mainly 5.5), but we are gradually moving more and more to MySQL on Linux (in fact we now have more Linux Servers than Windows). At present we use MySQLDump for our backups, but this is getting increasingly time consuming and unwieldy, so I am looking at alternatives.
If we use XtraBackup to take backups from one of our Linux DB’s can we restore that file onto a Windows machine if required?