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

I had faced a similar problem a quick workaround to this is:

1. Create a EBS Volume to have an extra space or extend current EBS volume on EC2. (or if you have an extra space you can use that).

2. Use mysqldump command without --master-data or --flush-data directive to generate a complete (FULL) backup of db.

   mysqldump -h hostname --routines -uadmin -p12344 test_db > filename.sql

admin is DB name and 12344 is the password

Above is for taking backup of one single DB, if required to take all DBs then specify --all-databases and also mention DB Names.

3. Create a Cron of this command to run once a day that will automatically generate the dump.

Please note that this will incur an extra cost if your DB Size is huge. as it creates a complete DB dump.

hope this helps