Backup, Recovery, and High Availability Solutions

Intermediate

💾 Backup & 🔁 High Availability in MySQL

Ensuring data integrity requires regular backups and robust high availability strategies.

📦 Backup Strategies

  • 🔄 Full Backups: Entire database snapshot
  • 🔃 Incremental Backups: Changes since the last backup
  • 📝 Binary Logs: Record of all changes to the database

🛠️ Tools:

  • mysqldump
  • MySQL Enterprise Backup

🔁 Recovery Process

Restore from backups with minimal downtime to maintain service continuity.

🛡️ High Availability Solutions

  • 🧬 Replication
  • 🧱 Clustering
  • 🔁 Failover Mechanisms

⚙️ Technologies:

  • MySQL InnoDB Cluster
  • Group Replication

✅ These configurations ensure:

  • 🔄 Continuous service availability
  • 📀 Data redundancy
  • 🚨 Disaster resilience

🏢 Proper backup and high availability setups are vital for enterprise-grade systems where data loss or downtime is unacceptable.