Mysqldump on FromDual GmbH

MySQL table Point-in-Time-Recovery from mysqldump backup

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:42:21 +0000

Sometimes we face the situation where we have a full MySQL database backup done with mysqldump and then we have to restore and recover just one single table out of our huge mysqldump file.
Further our mysqldump backup was taken hours ago so we want to recover all the changes on that table since our backup was taken up to the end.

Impacts of max_allowed_packet size problems on your MySQL database

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:18:46 +0000

We recently run into some troubles with max_allowed_packet size problems during backups with the FromDual Backup/Recovery Manager and thus I investigated a bit more in the symptoms of such problems.

Privileges of MySQL backup user for mysqldump

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:34:24 +0000

Some MySQL customers do not want to use the root user for mysqldump backups. For this user you have to grant the following minimal MySQL privileges:

How is a correct MariaDB/MySQL backup done?

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 18 May 2015 07:40:00 +0200

You find many different possibilities how to do a MariaDB/MySQL backup with mariadb-dump/mysqldump. But which one is the correct one?