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      25.6.8 Online Backup of NDB Cluster
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       25.6.8.1 NDB Cluster Backup Concepts
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       25.6.8.2 Using The NDB Cluster Management Client to Create a Backup
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       25.6.8.3 Configuration for NDB Cluster Backups
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       25.6.8.4 NDB Cluster Backup Troubleshooting
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       25.6.8.5 Taking an NDB Backup with Parallel Data Nodes
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   The next few sections describe how to prepare for and then to
      create an NDB Cluster backup using the functionality for this
      purpose found in the
   <a class="link" href="mysql-cluster-programs-ndb-mgm.html" title="25.5.5 ndb_mgm — The NDB Cluster Management Client">
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      ndb_mgm
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   management client.
      To distinguish this type of backup from a backup made using
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    <span class="command">
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      mysqldump
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   , we sometimes refer to it as a
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     native
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   NDB Cluster backup. (For information about
      the creation of backups with
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    <span class="command">
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      mysqldump
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   , see
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    Section 6.5.4, “mysqldump — A Database Backup Program”
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   .) Restoration of NDB Cluster backups
      is done using the
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      ndb_restore
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   utility provided
      with the NDB Cluster distribution; for information about
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      ndb_restore
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   and its use in restoring NDB
      Cluster backups, see
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    Section 25.5.23, “ndb_restore — Restore an NDB Cluster Backup”
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   It is also possible to create backups using multiple LDMs to
      achieve parallelism on the data nodes. See
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    Section 25.6.8.5, “Taking an NDB Backup with Parallel Data Nodes”
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