What should you do?

Your customer is running a MySQL database on-premises with read replicas. The nightly incremental backups are expensive and add maintenance overhead. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to migrate the database to Google Cloud, and you need to ensure minimal downtime .

What should you do?
A . Create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, install MySQL on the cluster, and then import the dump file.
B. Use the mysqldump utility to take a backup of the existing on-premises database, and then import it into Cloud SQL.
C. Create a Compute Engine VM, install MySQL on the VM, and then import the dump file.
D. Create an external replica, and use Cloud SQL to synchronize the data to the replica.

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Answer: B