How to Backup Your Chamilo LMS MySQL Database
Backup is the process of creating and storing copies of data that can be used to protect organizations against data loss. Chamilo LMS relies on MySQL or MariaDB as a database, so it is important...
How to Backup Your Moodle MariaDB Database
Previously, we had blogged about backing up your Moodle MySQL Database. This time, it's all about backing up your Moodle MariaDB Database. In fact, it shares the same approach when backing up your Moodle MySQL...
How to Backup Your Moodle MySQL Database
Data is an essential part of running a Moodle environment. Should the IT operations team lose data accidentally, then it could lead to a huge loss. So, to protect valuable information, sysadmins need to back...
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...
Tips for Storing Your MariaDB Backups in the Cloud
Having a good Disaster Recovery Plan is a must in all companies to prevent data loss or reduce downtime in case of failure. For this, backups are a basic point here, and it is essential...
How to Verify Your MySQL Backups with ClusterControl
Backups are a basic point in all Disaster Recovery Plans, but only having a backup is not enough to guarantee correct data recovery. You must need to make sure that the backup is usable, and...
Performance Testing Using MySQLdump and the MySQL Shell Utility
In my previous post I explained how to take a logical backup using the mysql shell utilities. In this post, we shall compare the speed of the backup and restoration process. MySQL Shell Speed Test ...
Tips for Storing Your TimescaleDB Backups in the Cloud
Daniel Keys Moran says “You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data”. Data is the key asset in every organization, if you lose the data then you lose information. This,...
Logical Database Backups Using MySQL Shell
Mysqldump is a popular logical backup tool for MySQL which was originally written by Igor Romanenko. Mysqldump performs logical backups (set of SQL statements). By default, mysqldump does not dump information_schema tables and it never...
MongoDB Backup Management Tips for Sharded Clusters
Making proper backups of the database is a critical task. Besides setting the high availability architecture of your MongoDB for database services, you also need to have backups of your databases to ensure the availability...
An Overview of Percona Backup for MongoDB
The known and popular backup method for MongoDB is mongodump. It is a logical backup method, similar to mysqldump in MySQL or pg_dump in PostgreSQL database. There is another backup tool called Percona Backup 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...