Mysql – Best way to backup thesql database

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How do you backup your mysql database so you can be sure that you are 100% protected of data loss whatever problems that may happen? I am thinking to rent one or two servers that i will use only for backup. Then i will setup rsync cron jobs that will do incremental backups daily to these two servers. Will this be enough? Do you use other methods than rsync to backup you database?

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In my biased opinion (I'm author of TwinDB) the best way to take backups from MySQL is to use TwinDB. Not only it will save from blunders like rsyncing database files (which with 100% guarantee leads to corrupted tablespace) but also lets you take incremental copies correctly.

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I'd recommend Ola's scripts for SQL Server maintenance - backups, re-indexing, checkDB, house-keeping, everything! It takes care of naming conventions too! They are very clever, and award winning too!!!! :)

Personally, if your databases are small, I'd keep to a full daily backup schedule. I believe Microsoft recommend that as well - simplicity is best approach.

Ola's scripts: http://ola.hallengren.com/

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Summarizing the information linked to in the post above....

The command you have used is for a live backup but what you want is an incremental backup. The approach you want to use (per this blog) uses somewhat different switches. You want to use the -n -t -x switches, and the -o to specify a log file. So the command ends up something like:

dbbackup -n -t -x -c "eng=ServerName.DbName;uid=dba;pwd=sql;links=tcpip(host=ServerName)" -o "c:\backup\backup_log.txt"

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