On 2022-04-17 14:13:07, Peter Jeremy wrote:
If the information is very critical (you mentioned legal consequences) then you might like to consider real-time replication of the MySQL redo logs to another systems - though that won't necessarily protect you from someone accidently doing a "DELETE FROM xxx;" or "DROP TABLE xxx;"
It won't, but if it's a delayed replica, you have some time to recover the data. Piotr