PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB backup restoration using ClusterControl CLI
Data is probably the most valuable asset in a company, so you need to make sure it is safe and can be restored in case of failure. Backups are the basic way to keep it...
Redis vs. Memcached From An Administration and Management Perspective
If you Google around, it is trivial to find the comparison between Redis versus Memcached as shown here, here, here and here. In this blog post, we will do a similar comparison between Redis and...
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...
How to Configure AppArmor for MongoDB Replica Sets?
There are many sections and layers of security if we are talking about the hardening of databases. It starts from the encryption of the underlying storage disk, database access privileges, authentication, network access control, data...
Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server
Upgrades are always a hard and time-consuming task. First, you should test your application in a test environment, so, ideally, you will need to clone your current production environment for this. Then, you need to...
Automating MongoDB Backups: A Guide
If you’re a database administrator, chances are that you have heard that once things become related to your database, you have a couple of options to choose from. You can choose from MySQL, MS SQL,...