It’s a well know fact that we could take backups with almost zero downtime with the “mysqldump” tool provided with the community edition of MySQL with a magical option --single-transaction on one condition that all the tables are InnoDB. Myisam tables locked even with single transaction option.
Now let us talk about the MySQL Enterprise backup tool that is only available with the Enterprise edition. We are also offered a 30 day trial. It has been said that MEB(let us just call the MySQL Enterprise backup, MEB) provides hot online backups with zero downtime.
So a hot backup is done online and doesn’t disrupt the normal operations of the database and it even captures the database operations happening during the backup process and applies it during the restoration process. This is applicable only to InnoDB tables.
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