The mysqlpump client utility performs logical backups, producing a set of SQL statements that can be executed to reproduce the original database object definitions and table data. It dumps one or more MySQL databases for backup or transfer to another SQL server.

mysqlpump features include:

• Parallel processing of databases, and of objects within databases, to speed up the dump process

• Better control over which databases and database objects (tables, stored programs, user accounts) to dump

• Dumping of user accounts as account-management statements (CREATE USER, GRANT) rather than as inserts into the mysql system database

• Capability of creating compressed output

• Progress indicator (the values are estimates)

• For dump file reloading, faster secondary index creation for InnoDB tables by adding indexes after rows are inserted