No way to backup to SQL files, à la automysqlbackup

Our server has been backing up its MySQL databases using AutoMySQLBackup for many years. Unfortunately, I just realized the latest version (2.6) contains a major bug, which I have very little hope will ever be fixed in a major release.

Looking at alternatives to AutoMySQLBackup, the closest I find is mariadb-backup, but it has one major problem: it does not actually create any .sql files (if I understand the documentation correctly).

Since we only use MariaDB for small, non-critical websites, and appreciate the portability of SQL files and being able to inspect them easily, 1 (compressed) SQL file/database remains our ideal.

So, please support dumping to SQL files.

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