Painless, ultra fast hot backups and restores of MySQL databases with Percona’s XtraBackup
A better alternative to mysqldump? In the previous post, we’ve seen how to perform backups and restores of MySQL databases using the mysqldump tool bundled with the MySQL server distribution, together with a few tricks that help speed up both backups and restores, among other things. mysqldump is very likely the most popular tool for… Read More »