Once the full backup is restored, you need to restore binary logs to get point-in-time recovery. The backups provide the binary log coordinates up to which the backups are available.
As explained in Chapter 7, Backups, in the Locking instance for backup section, you should choose the binary log backup from the right server, based on the --dump-slave or --master-data option specified in mysqldump.
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