Overview
Considerations and Tradeoffs
What Can You Afford to Lose?
Online or Offline Backups?
- Innodb_fast_shutdown
- FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOACK is not as expensive as shutting down, because most of your caches are still in memory and the server is still “warm”.
Logical or Raw Backups?
What to Back Up
Storage Engines and Consistency
Replication
Managing and Backing Up Binary Logs
Backing Up Data
Recovering from a Backup
Backup and Recovery Speed
Backup Tools
Scripting Backups