Backup MySQL Amazon RDS

Question

I am trying to setup Replica outside of AWS and master is running at AWS RDS. And I do not want any downtime at my master. So I setup my slave node and now I want to backup my c

Answer 1

for RDS binlog position you can use mydumper with --lock-all-tables, it will use LOCK TABLES ... READ just to get the binlog coordinates and then realease it instead of FTWRL.