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There are multiple reasons why you might want to do a restore. The most obvious one is if you lost your data – for example, after accidentally deleting the wrong data or after a hardware failure. Many of the restores you do should be to test your backups, backup procedures, and restore procedures. This means you restore the data on a temporary location and then check whether the restore is working properly and if all the data you expect to be there is there. And then there are restores you do to set up a new server. The new server can then be configured to replicate from your main server, allowing you to test a new version of MySQL before upgrading. It can also be used to test an upgrade procedure for the software you are using before doing it on the actual production instance.
The simplest restore type is to just restore everything. This is a full restore. This is what you would use if you lost all your data.
Another option is to restore a single table...