Support cloning a slave from an online master

[nevermort]

Hi guys. Thx for u'r great soft.
Tell me pls, is there a solution in jetpants for adding (not clone) slave for single master (without any other slaves). (maybe, by using Percona XtraBackup or some other "hot" backup utilities)?
I didn't find any stuff like this in jetpants.

[evanelias]

Jetpants doesn't have support for hot-copy yet, but it is high on the priority list. Most likely it will wrap xtrabackup for this purpose.

Currently though all cloning is cold-copy, meaning the source mysqld is shut down and a physical file copy is performed. This is why the CLI's jetpants clone_slave command currently only allows cloning standby replicas. You can clone a master or read replica via jetpants console by running Ruby code, but this is a disruptive process since the source instance needs to be shut down.

[nevermort]

Thanks for answer.
We will expect from you even more excellent solutions and approaches (especially about hot backup process).
My best regards!