How to Recover Accidentally Dropped MySQL Data in 48 Hours – A Complete Step‑by‑Step Guide
This guide walks you through a full disaster‑recovery workflow for MySQL, covering emergency read‑only switching, pinpointing the deletion time via binlog, preparing a recovery instance, restoring the latest full backup with Xtrabackup or mysqldump, applying incremental binlog changes, verifying data integrity, and safely switching traffic back to the restored database.
