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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for MySQL Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup for MySQL backup and restore
  4. About MySQL database backups
Veritas NetBackup™ for MySQL Administrator's Guide

About MySQL database backups

The nbmysql command initiates the backup operation using the -S, -P, -s and -l as required parameters. The parameter -z is the required parameter for LVM configured systems.

The parameter -p and -u are the optional parameters.

Configure these parameters in the nbmysql.conf file or specify on the nbmysql command line, where the parameters provided on the command line takes precedence.

Figure: NetBackup for MySQL backup workflow

NetBackup for MySQL backup workflow

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