Dealing with dumping and recovery of large and partially corrupted database I’ve got couple of feature ideas for mysqldump or similar tool and appropriate import tool
Dump in parallel single thread dump is not efficient of course especially on systems with multiple CPUs and disks. It is lesser issue in recovery case because import takes most of the time anyway but will be handy for some backup needs.
Dump each table in its own file This is much more convenient compared to single say 100GB sql file allowing to prioritize data load and if load fails for any reason you can easily restart it. Also it allows to prioritize data load if you’ve got to load many tables which have different priority for your application.
Safe Dump Dumping corrupted Innodb tables you will have some of the them crashing Innodb which breaks mysqldump process. It would be great for load script to record in the logs such table was not dumped successfully, wait for MySQL to complete restart and continue going with other tables.
Parallel restore This is absolutely required if time is the issue as serious systems may perform much better in such case.
As usually when need arises there is no time to implement solid solution which will work for a lot of people so we get by with few quick and dirty shell scripts to do this.


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