In MySQL, a series of binary log files that contain events that describe data and DDL changes for a database. The binary log provides a record of the events that occur after a backup is made for recovery purposes. The term
binary log file
refers to an individual log file that has a unique name consisting of a base name, "_binlog," and a generated numeric suffix. The term
binary log
refers to the series of binary log files with the same base name plus a corresponding index file that contains the names of the binary log files that have been used.
On the
Extract Range
tab of the Data Replication Console, you specify the path to the directory that contains the binary log files.