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

Michael's answer is extremely helpful and focuses on the main sticking point: you simply cannot GRANT the required SUPER privilege on RDS, and therefore you can't use the --master-data flag that would make things so much easier.

I read that it may be possible to work around this by creating or modifying a Database Parameter Group via the API, but I think using the RDS procedures is a better option.

The multi-tiered replication approach works well, though, and can include tiers outside RDS/VPC so it's possible to replicate from "Classic" EC2 to VPC using this method.

A lot of the necessary functionality is only in later releases of MySQL 5.5 and 5.6, and I strongly recommend you run the same version on all the DBs involved in the replication stack, so you may have to do an upgrade of your old DB before all of this, which means yet more tedium and replication and so on.