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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 offline backup with MySQL Cluster

The MySQL client RPM includes the binary mysqldump, which produces SQL statements from a MySQL database. In this recipe, we will explore the usage of this tool with MySQL Clusters.

Taking a backup with mysqldump for MySQL Cluster (NDB) tables is identical to other table engines and has all of the same disadvantages—most importantly that it requires significant locking to take a consistent backup. However, it is simple, easy to verify, and trivial to restore from and also provides a way to restore the backup from a MySQL Cluster into a standalone server (for example, by using InnoDB) in the case that a cluster is not available for recovery.

How to do it…

To run mysqldump in the simplest way possible is to ...

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