Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Business InformationWritten by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery covers all the options with detailed descriptions and syntax examples to ensure an appropriate backup and recovery plan can be developed. Featuring a side-by-side evaluation of the various backup strategies and complementary recovery implementations, this Oracle Press book helps you to protect your MySQL data from a wide range of disaster situations. Learn how different backup strategies affect locking and system availabilityIdentify the importance of static backup options and point-in-time requirementsRecognize the important business factors to determine your optimal data protection requirementsUnderstand the benefits of using MySQL replication for leveraging different backup strategiesUnderstand the benefits and risks of implementing solutions with MySQL in the cloudIdentify key configuration variables that affect data durability and performanceFind out about the types of possible disasters and develop a robust plan to address themOptimize your backup approach with compression, streaming, incremental, and parallel options