This guide explains how to use MyDumper for logical backups and MyLoader for fast, parallel replica reconstruction, covering backup parameters, metadata configuration, replication setup, handling faulty replicas, and final restoration steps to ensure data consistency and minimal downtime.
Learn how to install mydumper on various Linux distributions, use its multithreaded, compressed, and incremental backup features, and deploy a robust Bash script that automates full and incremental MySQL backups, handles encryption, cleanup, logging, notifications, and restoration with myloader.
This article demonstrates how the MySQL LIKE clause can give misleading results when filtering triggers, walks through a step‑by‑step lab that creates tables and triggers, shows the pitfalls of LIKE, and presents a safer WHERE‑based method for retrieving trigger definitions.
This article compares various MySQL data import/export methods—including mysqldump, mydumper, SELECT OUTFILE, and MySQL Shell utilities—explaining their commands, configuration options, performance results, and best‑practice recommendations based on testing with a 10‑million‑row table.
This guide explains MySQL backup fundamentals, comparing cold backups, LVM snapshot backups, logical tools like mysqldump and mydumper, and physical solutions such as Percona Xtrabackup, detailing each method’s workflow, advantages, limitations, and how to achieve consistent recovery points and times.
This article explains MySQL backup fundamentals, compares cold, snapshot, logical (mysqldump, mydumper) and physical (Xtrabackup) methods, outlines their workflows, pros and cons, and discusses lock‑related performance impacts and Percona's backup‑lock improvements.
