title: Amazon RDS mysqldump outside of the Amazon eco-system
body: <p>I would like to do a daily mysqldump to my own local disk out side of the amazon eco-system.  I have few reasons I want to do this daily.</p>
  
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  <li>I want to be in more control of my database <strong>when</strong> RDS\EBS goes down again.</li>
  <li>RDS only allows you to restore within the same availability zone.  This really gets me because a natural disaster or network fault at the availability zone pretty much renders backups useless because you can only restore to the same zone. :/</li>
  <li>Would like a sandbox/test database where I don't have to pay for space and bandwith.</li>
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  <p>My big question is if I do a daily mysql dump of a 50gb database will my bandwidth\IO costs skyrocket?  I'm assuming they will!  Has anyone done something like this before?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I am running a Multi-AZ production environment be recent outages still proved that there is no such thing as complete failover.</li>
  <li>Our company has two services, a front facing web site and internal processing.  It's most important that our internal operations don't stop.  Our web site could go dark for several hours if need be.  Having a recent mysql dump at my figure tips seem priceless to me.</li>
  </ul>