# Is it advisable to take full backup from slave after switchover?

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [July 10, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-advisable-to-take-full-backup-from-slave-after-switchover/4297 "2015-07-10T05:38:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ikonrao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@ikonrao](https://forums.percona.com/u/ikonrao)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-advisable-to-take-full-backup-from-slave-after-switchover/4297/1 "2015-07-10T05:38:07Z")

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Hello

We have two mysql servers, 1 as master and 2 as slave (using GTID replication 5.6.21)  
Currently we take full back from master server from Mysql enterprise backup  
We will be performing an activity to make slave as master and master as slave

Wanted to know if there is any harm if we take backup from newly made slave (which was master earlier)after switchover?

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**Author:** ![scott.nemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/scott.nemes/32/5_2.png) [@scott.nemes](https://forums.percona.com/u/scott.nemes)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-advisable-to-take-full-backup-from-slave-after-switchover/4297/2 "2015-07-10T16:32:32Z")

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Hi ikonrao;

Are you asking if it is okay to backup the slave instead of the master? If so, yes, that is fairly standard practice. The main risk is slave drift, where your slave gets out of sync from the master. So if you want to be safe, you could run pt-table-checksum on a regular schedule to detect any differences on the slave vs the master.

[url][https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-table-checksum.html[/url]](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-table-checksum.html%5B/url%5D)

-Scott

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**Author:** ![ikonrao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@ikonrao](https://forums.percona.com/u/ikonrao)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-it-advisable-to-take-full-backup-from-slave-after-switchover/4297/3 "2015-07-13T03:41:19Z")

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Thanks Scott.