Effective MySQL Backup and Recovery

Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Business Information Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery covers all the options with detailed descriptions and syntax examples to ensure an appropriate backup and recovery plan can be developed. Featuring a side-by-side evaluation of the various backup strategies and complementary recovery implementations, this Oracle Press book helps you to protect your MySQL data from a wide range of disaster situations. Learn how different backup strategies affect locking and system availability Identify the importance of static backup options and point-in-time requirements Recognize the important business factors to determine your optimal data protection requirements Understand the benefits of using MySQL replication for leveraging different backup strategies Understand the benefits and risks of implementing solutions with MySQL in the cloud Identify key configuration variables that affect data durability and performance Find out about the types of possible disasters and develop a robust plan to address them Optimize your backup approach with compression, streaming, incremental, and parallel options