ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – mariabackup Part III
So far in the previous two parts of this short blog series we have discussed several options that may impact the time and size of the backup. We have discussed different compression options and a...
ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – MongoDB
Disaster recovery does not complete without a proper backup system. When something bad happens, the data could be restored by using the backup preferably with the latest one. We might want to avoid restoring the...
ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – PostgreSQL
Information is one of the most valuable assets in a company, so you will need a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or hardware failure. Backups...
ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – mariabackup Part II
In the previous part we have tested backup time and effectiveness of the compression for different backup compression levels and methods. In this blog we will continue our efforts and we will talk about more...
ClusterControl – Advanced Backup Management – mariabackup Part I
ClusterControl can, among others, act as a great tool to help you design and execute the backup schedule. Numerous features are available including backup verification, transparent backup encryption and many others. What is quite commonly...
Backing Up Redis Clusters: A Guide
As we discussed in one of our previous blogs, backing up Redis is quite important to do, even if all we use Redis for is a cache for your application or the database. We have...
An Overview of Backup tools for Redis
Redis is a well-known in-memory datastore, quite commonly used for caching the data from a website or the database. You may think in such use cases backups of the data is not really relevant, but...
COVID-19 Cyber Attacks Call for you to Backup Securely
The COVID-19 pandemic has had its fair share of influence on world media but of interest is the sheer amount of cyber attacks that have escalated since it began. Interestingly enough, is news of a...
Tips for Storing Your Percona Backups in the Cloud
Percona has made a lot of great contributions in the open source world. One of the most downloaded software is their backup software for MySQL and for MongoDB. These softwares play a vital role for...
Using Barman for PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery
There must be many powerful tools available as a backup and restore option for PostgreSQL in general; Barman, PgBackRest, BART are to name a few in this context. What caught our attention was that Barman...
How to Restore a Single MySQL Table Using mysqldump?
Mysqldump is the most popular logical backup tool for MySQL. It is included in the MySQL distribution, so it’s ready for use on all of the MySQL instances. Logical backups are not, however, the fastest...
How to Restore a Single Table Using Percona Xtrabackup?
Backups are the means of protecting from data loss - should something happen, you can easily restore it from the backup. You cannot predict what part of the data will have to be restored -...