How can you migrate an on-premises MySQL database with read replicas to Google Cloud following Google-recommended practices to minimize downtime, while addressing the high cost and maintenance overhead of nightly incremental backups?

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Create a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, install MySQL on the cluster, and then import the dump file.

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Use the mysqldump utility to take a backup of the existing on-premises database, and then import it into Cloud SQL.

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Create a Compute Engine VM, install MySQL on the VM, and then import the dump file.

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Create an external replica, and use Cloud SQL to synchronize the data to the replica.

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Google Professional Cloud Database Engineer