### 23.6.8 Online Backup of NDB Cluster

[23.6.8.1 NDB Cluster Backup Concepts](mysql-cluster-backup-concepts.html)
[23.6.8.2 Using The NDB Cluster Management Client to Create a Backup](mysql-cluster-backup-using-management-client.html)
[23.6.8.3 Configuration for NDB Cluster Backups](mysql-cluster-backup-configuration.html)
[23.6.8.4 NDB Cluster Backup Troubleshooting](mysql-cluster-backup-troubleshooting.html)
[23.6.8.5 Taking an NDB Backup with Parallel Data Nodes](mysql-cluster-backup-parallel-data-nodes.html)

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 The next few sections describe how to prepare for and then to create an NDB Cluster backup using the functionality for this purpose found in the [**ndb\_mgm**](mysql-cluster-programs-ndb-mgm.html) management client. To distinguish this type of backup from a backup made using [**mysqldump**](mysqldump.html), we sometimes refer to it as a “native” NDB Cluster backup. (For information about the creation of backups with [**mysqldump**](mysqldump.html), see [Section 4.5.4, “mysqldump — A Database Backup Program”](mysqldump.html).) Restoration of NDB Cluster backups is done using the [**ndb\_restore**](mysql-cluster-programs-ndb-restore.html) utility provided with the NDB Cluster distribution; for information about [**ndb\_restore**](mysql-cluster-programs-ndb-restore.html) and its use in restoring NDB Cluster backups, see [Section 23.5.23, “ndb\_restore — Restore an NDB Cluster Backup”](mysql-cluster-programs-ndb-restore.html).

 NDB 8.0 makes it possible to create backups using multiple LDMs to achieve parallelism on the data nodes. See [Section 23.6.8.5, “Taking an NDB Backup with Parallel Data Nodes”](mysql-cluster-backup-parallel-data-nodes.html).

