MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.4 Release Notes
Abstract
This is the user manual for MySQL Enterprise Backup, a commercially licensed backup utility for MySQL databases. It explains the different kinds of backup and restore that can be performed with MySQL Enterprise Backup, and describes the commands for performing them. Strategies for optimizing backup and restore operations are also discussed.
For notes detailing the changes in each release, see the MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.4 Release Notes.
For legal information, including licensing information, see the Preface and Legal Notices.
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Document generated on: 2024-12-24 (revision: 8684)
Table of Contents
- Preface and Legal Notices
- I Getting Started with MySQL Enterprise Backup
- II Using MySQL Enterprise Backup
- 4 Backing Up a Database Server
- 5 Recovering or Restoring a Database Server
- 5.1 Performing a Restore Operation
- 5.1.1 Restoring a Compressed Backup
- 5.1.2 Restoring an Encrypted Backup Image
- 5.1.3 Restoring an Incremental Backup
- 5.1.4 Table-Level Recovery (TLR)
- 5.1.5 Restoring Backups Created with the
--use-ttsOption - 5.1.6 Restoring External InnoDB Tablespaces to Different Locations
- 5.1.7 Advanced: Preparing and Restoring a Directory Backup
- 5.2 Restoring a Backup from Cloud Storage to a MySQL Server
- 5.3 Point-in-Time Recovery
- 5.4 Restoring a Backup with a Database Server Upgrade or Downgrade
- 6 Working with Encrypted InnoDB Tablespaces
- 7 Backing up Using Redo Log Archiving
- 8 Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with Replication
- 9 Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with Group Replication
- 10 Encryption for Backups
- 11 Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with Media Management Software (MMS) Products
- 12 Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with Docker
- 13 Performance Considerations for MySQL Enterprise Backup
- 14 Monitoring Backups with MySQL Enterprise Monitor
- 15 Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with MySQL Enterprise Firewall
- 16 Using LDAP for Server Authentication
- 17 Troubleshooting for MySQL Enterprise Backup
- III mysqlbackup Command Reference
- 18 mysqlbackup
- 19 mysqlbackup commands
- 20 mysqlbackup Command-Line Options
- 20.1 General Options
- 20.2 Connection Options
- 20.3 Server Repository Options
- 20.4 Backup Repository Options
- 20.5 Metadata Options
- 20.6 Compression Options
- 20.7 Incremental Backup Options
- 20.8 Partial Backup and Restore Options
- 20.9 Single-File Backup Options
- 20.10 Performance / Scalability / Capacity Options
- 20.11 Message Logging Options
- 20.12 Progress Report Options
- 20.13 Encryption Options
- 20.14 Options for Working with Encrypted InnoDB Tablespaces and Encrypted Binary/Relay Logs
- 20.15 Cloud Storage Options
- 20.16 Options for Special Backup Types
- 21 Configuration Files and Parameters
- IV Appendixes
- Index
List of Tables
List of Examples
- 4.1 Single-File Backup to Absolute Path
- 4.2 Single-File Backup to Relative Path
- 4.3 Single-File Backup to Standard Output
- 4.4 Convert Existing Backup Directory to Single Image
- 4.5 Extract Existing Image to Backup Directory
- 4.6 List Single-File Backup Contents
- 4.7 Validate a Single-File Backup
- 4.8 Extract Single-File Backup into Current Directory
- 4.9 Extract Single-File Backup into a Backup Directory
- 4.10 Selective Extract of Single File
- 4.11 Selective Extract of Single Directory
- 4.12 Dealing with Absolute Path Names
- 4.13 Single-File Backup to a Remote Host
- 4.14 Single-file Backup to a Remote MySQL Server
- 4.15 Stream a Backup Directory to a Remote MySQL Server
- 4.16 Creating a Cloud Backup on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
- 4.17 Creating a Cloud Incremental Backup on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 4.18 Creating a Cloud Backup on an OpenStack Object Storage
- 4.19 Creating a Cloud Backup in an Amazon S3 Bucket
- 4.20 Creating a Cloud Incremental Backup in an Amazon S3 Bucket
- 4.21 Creating a Cloud Backup on GCP Storage Service
- 4.22 Making an Uncompressed Partial Backup of InnoDB Tables
- 4.23 Making a Compressed Partial Backup
- 4.24 Optimistic Backup Using the Option
optimistic-time=YYMMDDHHMMSS - 4.25 Optimistic Backup Using the Option
optimistic-time=now - 4.26 Optimistic Backup Using the
optimistic-busy-tablesOption - 4.27 Optimistic and Partial Backup Using both the
optimistic-busy-tablesandoptimistic-timeOptions - 5.1 Restoring a Database Server
- 5.2 Restoring a Compressed Backup
- 5.3 Restoring a Compressed Directory Backup
- 5.4 Restoring a Compressed and Prepared Directory Backup
- 5.5 Restoring an Encrypted Backup Image
- 5.6 Restoring an Incremental Backup Image
- 5.7 Restoring A Selected Table from an Image Backup
- 5.8 Restoring Selected Tables in a Schema from an Image Backup
- 5.9 Restoring and Renaming a Table from a TTS Backup
- 5.10 Restoring a Backup Directory using copy-back-and-apply-log
- 5.11 Applying the Log to a Backup
- 5.12 Restoring a Single-file Backup from an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage to a MySQL Server
- 5.13 Restoring a Cloud Incremental Backup from an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage to a MySQL Server
- 5.14 Restoring a Single-file Backup from an OpenStack Object Storage to a MySQL Server
- 5.15 Restoring a Single-file Backup from Amazon S3 to a MySQL Server
- 5.16 Restoring a Single-file Backup from GCP Storage Service to a MySQL Server
- 11.1 Sample mysqlbackup Commands Using MySQL Enterprise Backup with Oracle Secure Backup
- 16.1 Backup Using Simple LDAP Authentication
- 16.2 TTS Restore Using Simple LDAP Authentication
- 16.3 Backup Using SALS-based LDAP Authentication
- 16.4 TTS Restore Using SALS-based Authentication
- 19.1 Apply Log to Full Backup
- 21.1 Sample
backup-my.cnffile