Lukas Vileikis continues a series on MySQL backups:
Everyone who has ever backed up data using any kind of RDBMS knows a thing or two about backups. Backups are a central part of data integrity – especially nowadays, when data breaches are happening left and right. Properly tested backups are crucial to any company: once something happens to our data, they help us quickly get back on track. However, some of you may have heard about the differences between backups in database management systems – backups are also classified into a couple of forms unique to themselves. We’re talking about the physical and logical forms – these have their own advantages and downsides: let’s explore those and the differences between the two. This tutorial is geared towards MySQL, but we will also provide some advice that is not exclusive to MySQL.
Click through to learn those differences.