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Hot Backup

InnoDB Hot Backup is the ideal solution for online backups of InnoDB tables in MySQL—and for setting up replication. It allows you to back up a running InnoDB database under MySQL without setting any locks or disturbing normal database processing. You get a consistent copy of your database, as if the copy were taken at a precise point in time. InnoDB Hot Backup is also the ideal method of setting up new slaves if you use the MySQL replication on InnoDB tables.

See this page for a list of InnoDB Hot Backup features and a list of supported of hardware and operating system platforms. For more detail, see the InnoDB Hot Backup Manual (HTML) (PDF).

InnoDB Hot Backup is licensed on a per-server basis, on annual and perpetual terms, as described here. Support is available on an annual basis, under these terms.