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High Availability MySQL Cookbook
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High Availability MySQL Cookbook

by Alexander Davies
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
6h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Taking an online backup of a MySQL Cluster

MySQL Cluster online backups allow administrators to take a consistent, "point in time", backup of an entire cluster. This is an extremely useful feature and this recipe will explain how these backups work and demonstrate how to take an online backup.

Note

An online backup can only be restored into another MySQL Cluster. If you wish to take a "disaster recovery" backup, which can be restored into say a single MySQL server relatively quickly, you must use mysqldump (look at the previous recipe) or cluster replication (explained in Chapter 5, High Availability with MySQL Replication).

Getting ready

MySQL Cluster online backups cover all the tables in the cluster (that is, all the NDB tables) and are initiated ...

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