Backing up MySQL Part 3: mysqlpump


 

In the MySQL world, there are a couple of ways to take backups of your data. Backups in MySQL can be categorized into two distinct categories: logical or physical. MySQL also comes with a lot of tools helping us achieve our backup objectives: we have walked you through one of the most popular offerings in this space – Percona XtraBackup – in the second part of this series, and the first part of this series covered one of the main logical MySQL backup tools called mysqldump. As far as backups are concerned, though, we are far from done – for