MySQL Enterprise Backup is a high-performance backup platform that operates orders of times faster than the common mysqldump tools used by MySQL Community customers.

Category: Enterprise Features

Backup also offers precise one-click point-in-time recovery, and partial recovery for restoring a specific set of objects. You can also back up tables created by any of the available storage engines such as MyISAM.

What's new in MySQL Enterprise Backup 8

As of the current release (8.0.16), several new features are added, including:

• support for MySQL Enterprise Firewall
• encrypted InnoDB undo logs and tablespaces
• the backup process has been modified to put a backup lock on the server to prevent DDL statements (but not DML statements) on InnoDB tables.
• dynamic changes to undo tablespaces on the server being backed up

Cloud Storage Options

MySQL Backup Enterprise has two options for cloud storage:

• OpenStack Swift-compatible cloud storage, which currently includes Oracle Cloud Storage
• Amazon S3