Backups and Restores

For any database product, backups and restores are two very important parts of ensuring the data can be recovered in case of human errors, hardware failures, natural disasters, and the like. MySQL NDB Cluster offers two types of backups: native backups and logical backups. Both types have their uses, and in most cases, both should be used. This chapter goes through the two options, discusses when to use them, and covers how to restore the backups. First, the chapter discusses what a backup and backup procedure are.