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Hot Backup

InnoDB Hot Backup is the ideal solution for online backups of InnoDB and MyISAM tables in MySQL databases — and for setting up replication. InnoDB Hot Backup allows you to backup a running MySQL database, including InnoDB and MyISAM tables, with minimal disruption to operations. You get a consistent copy of your database, as if the copy were taken at a precise point in time. While InnoDB Hot Backup copies InnoDB tables, reads and writes to both InnoDB and MyISAM tables can continue. During the copying of MyISAM tables, reads (but not writes) are permitted.

In addition, InnoDB Hot Backup supports creating compressed backup files, and performing backups of subsets of InnoDB tables. In conjunction with MySQL’s binlog, users can perform point in time recovery. 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.

InnoDB Hot Backup is licensed on a per-server basis, on annual and perpetual terms. A 30-day trial license is also available for evaluations. Support is available on an annual basis, under these terms. Order InnoDB Hot Backup today!