Usage - MyDumper documentation

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# Usage

## Synopsis

mydumper [OPTIONS]

myloader `--directory` = /path/to/mydumper/backup [OPTIONS]

## Description

mydumper is a tool used for backing up MySQL database servers much faster than the mysqldump tool distributed with MySQL. The advantages of mydumper are:

> - Parallelism (hence, speed) and performance (avoids expensive character set conversion routines, efficient code overall)

> - Easier to manage output (separate files for tables, dump metadata, etc, easy to view/parse data)

> - Consistency - maintains snapshot across all threads, provides accurate master and slave log positions, etc

> - Manageability - supports PCRE for specifying database and tables inclusions and exclusions