- Documentation Library
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- MySQL 5.5 Manual
- MySQL 5.4 Manual
- MySQL 5.1 Manual
- MySQL 5.0 Manual
- MySQL 3.23/4.0/4.1 Manual
- Table of Contents
- Preface, Notes, Licenses
- 1 General Information
- 2 Installing and Upgrading MySQL
- 3 Tutorial
- 4 MySQL Programs
- 5 MySQL Server Administration
- 6 Backup and Recovery
- 7 Optimization
- 8 Language Structure
- 9 Internationalization and Localization
- 10 Data Types
- 11 Functions and Operators
- 12 SQL Statement Syntax
- 13 Storage Engines
- 14 Replication
- 15 MySQL Cluster
- 16 Spatial Extensions
- 17 Connectors and APIs
- 18 Extending MySQL
- A Errors, Error Codes, and Common Problems
- B MySQL Change History
- C Restrictions and Limits
- Index
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It is important to back up your databases so that you can recover your data and be up and running again in case problems occur. MySQL offers a variety of backup strategies from which you can choose the methods that best suit the requirements for your installation. This chapter discusses several backup and recovery topics with which you should be familiar:
Types of backups: Logical versus physical, full versus incremental, and so forth
Methods for creating backups
Recovery methods, including point-in-time recovery
Backup scheduling, compression, and encryption
Table maintenance, to enable recovery of corrupt tables
Additional Resources
Resources related to backup or to maintaining data availability include the following:
A forum dedicated to backup issues is available at http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?93.
Details for mysqldump, mysqlhotcopy, and other MySQL backup programs can be found in Chapter 4, MySQL Programs.
The syntax of the SQL statements described here is given in Chapter 12, SQL Statement Syntax.
For additional information about
InnoDBbackup procedures, see Section 13.2.7, “Backing Up and Recovering anInnoDBDatabase”.Replication enables you to maintain identical data on multiple servers. This has several benefits, such as allowing client query load to be distributed over servers, availability of data even if a given server is taken offline or fails, and the ability to make backups with no impact on the master by using a slave server. See Chapter 14, Replication.
MySQL Cluster provides a high-availability, high-redundancy version of MySQL adapted for the distributed computing environment. See Chapter 15, MySQL Cluster. For information specifically about MySQL Cluster backup, see Section 15.5.3, “Online Backup of MySQL Cluster”.
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