Minimum Privileges Required to Backup MySQL Databases

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Tuesday, June 7th, 2016

How to create a mysql user for running automated backups.

GRANT SELECT, RELOAD, LOCK TABLES
ON *.* 
TO  'MysqlBackupUser'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'MySQLBackupUserPassword'

References

MySQL Permissions for backup using mysqldump and/or ec2-consistent-snapshot


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