Managing Database Backup Retention Schedules
Attention: Skip reading this blog post if you can afford unlimited storage space. If you could afford unlimited storage space, you wouldn't have to worry about backup retention at all, since you could store your...
Best Practices for Database Backups
Backups - one of the most important things to take care of while managing databases. It is said there are two types of people - those who backup their data and those who will backup...
Simple Scheduling of Maintenance Windows Across Your Database Clusters
Maintenance is something that an operation team can not avoid. Servers have to keep up with the latest software, hardware and technology to ensure systems are stable and running with the lowest risk possible, while...
Recovering your MongoDB Data
In previous posts of our MongoDB DBA series, we have covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1), Monitoring (part 2) and backup. Now it is time to recover MongoDB using a backup we made in the...
Webinar Replay: Repair & Recovery for Your MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB / TokuMX Clusters
Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again and browse through the slides, they are now available online. Special thanks to...
Point-in-Time Recovery for MySQL Galera Cluster
**Update: 6th May, 2016 - This blog post has been updated to reflect ClusterControl v1.3.0 Data protection is vital for DB admins, especially when it involves data that is accessed and updated 24 hours a day....