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Performing regular backups of your database cluster is imperative for high availability and disaster recovery. This blog post provides a series of best practices on how to fully restore a MySQL or MariaDB Galera Cluster from backup.

There are a number of ways to backup MySQL and MariaDB, each comes with pros and cons. An effective backup strategy will depend on the requirements of the business, the environment you operate in, and the resources at your disposal.

MySQL offers multiple storage engines to store its data, with InnoDB and MyISAM the most popular ones. This has an impact on how you design and run your backup procedures.

Check out our free new whitepaper on database backups, which discusses in detail the two most popular backup utilities available for MySQL and MariaDB, namely mysqldump and Percona XtraBackup.

During this webinar, participants will learn how to build a production-ready environment with MySQL replication. From OS and DB configuration checklists to schema changes and disaster recovery, they’ll have the information needed to plan and prepare the best setup for their requirements.

Join our new webinar during which we’ll cover our 9 Top Tips on how to build a stable MySQL Replication environment. From OS and DB configuration checklists to schema changes and disaster recovery,  you’ll have the tips needed for a production-ready replication setup.

This is our sixth post in the “Become a MongoDB DBA” blog series - how do you recover MongoDB using a backup.

This is our fifth post in the “Become a MongoDB DBA” blog series - how do you make a good backup strategy for MongoDB, what tools are available and what you should watch out for.