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mydumper

High-performance logical backup tool for MySQL

Backup & Recovery ★ 3.2k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

mydumper is a multi-threaded logical backup and restore tool for MySQL and MariaDB. It is significantly faster than mysqldump and produces consistent, parallelizable backups.

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Key features

  • Multi-threaded dumping
  • Consistent snapshots
  • Much faster than mysqldump

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Active community (3.2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is mydumper secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for mydumper's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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