Taking backups using mydumper
mydumper
is a logical backup tool that's similar to mysqlpump
.
mydumper
 has these advantages over mysqldump
:
- Parallelism (hence, speed) and performance (avoids expensive character set conversion routines and has efficient code overall).
- Consistency. It maintains snapshots across all threads, provides accurate master and slave log positions, and so on.
mysqlpump
does not guarantee consistency. - Easier to manage output (separate files for tables and dumped metadata, and it is easy to view/parse data).
mysqlpump
writes everything to one file, which limits the option of loading selective database objects. - Inclusion and exclusion of database objects using regex.
- The option to kill long-running transactions that block the backup and all subsequent queries.
mydumper
is an open source backup tool, which you need to install separately. In this section, installation steps on Debian and Red Hat systems and the usage of mydumper
will be covered.
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