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MySQL 8 Cookbook

You're reading from   MySQL 8 Cookbook Over 150 recipes for high-performance database querying and administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788395809
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. MySQL 8 - Installing and Upgrading 2. Using MySQL FREE CHAPTER 3. Using MySQL (Advanced) 4. Configuring MySQL 5. Transactions 6. Binary Logging 7. Backups 8. Restoring Data 9. Replication 10. Table Maintenance 11. Managing Tablespace 12. Managing Logs 13. Performance Tuning 14. Security

Introduction

After setting up the database, the next important thing is to set up backups. In this chapter, you will learn how to set up various types of backups. There are two main ways to perform a backup. One is logical backup, which exports all the databases, table structures, data, and stored routines into a set of SQL statements that can be executed again to recreate the state of the database. The other type is physical backup, which contains all the files on the system that the databases used to store all the database entities:

  • Logical backup utilities: mysqldump, mysqlpump, and mydumper (not shipped with MySQL)
  • Physical backup utilities: XtraBackup (not shipped with MySQL) and flat file backup

For point-in-time recovery, the backup should be able to provide the binary log positions up to which the backups are taken. This is called a consistent backup.

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