I was reading the manual for Hot Backup for InnoDB and i was missing one fundamental thing in the doc and that is setting the log-bin The document only speaks about The my.cnf files must contain the following parameter values:
innodb_data_home_dir=... innodb_data_file_path=... innodb_log_group_home_dir=... innodb_log_files_in_group=... innodb_log_file_size=... And for recovering purpose log-bin in the [mysqld] section am I correct for POINT IN TIME RECOVERING