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 5.10.2.3 Backup Strategy Summary
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 In case of an operating system crash or power failure, `InnoDB' itself
 does all the job of recovering data. But to make sure that you can
 sleep well, observe the following guidelines:
 
    * Always run the MySQL server with the -log-bin option, or even
      -log-bin=LOG_NAME, where the log file name is located on some safe
      media different from the drive on which the data directory is
      located. If you have such safe media, this technique can also be
      good for disk load balancing (which results in a performance
      improvement).
 
    * Make periodic full backups, using the `mysqldump' command shown
      earlier in  backup-policy, that makes an online,
      non-blocking backup.
 
    * Make periodic incremental backups by flushing the logs with `FLUSH
      LOGS' or `mysqladmin flush-logs'.
 

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