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Use Hot Backups Hot backups are an excellent way to backup MySQL. They can run without blocking your application, and save tons on restore time. Percona’s xtrabackup tool is a great way to do this. We wrote a how-to on using xtrabackup for hotbackups. Use Logical Backups Just because we love hot backups using xtrabackup …
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For most large web applications, uptime is of foremost importants. Any outage can be seen by customers as a frustration, or opportunity to move to a competitor. What’s more for a site that also includes e-commerce, it can mean real lost sales. Zero Downtime describes a site without service interruption. To achieve such lofty goals, …
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