Basic Administration Comparison Between Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
The introduction of DevOps in organizations has changed the development process and also introduced some new challenges. In addition, developers and DevOps teams, along with their own chosen programming languages, also have their favorite database...
Automate Deployment of Your MySQL or Postgres Cluster From Backup
ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces a new feature called Create Cluster from Backup, which allows you to deploy a new MySQL or Postgres-based cluster and restore data on it from a backup. This blog post shows how...
How to Manage Your PostgreSQL Databases From the ClusterControl CLI
Did you know that apart from the ClusterControl web UI, you can also use a command line interface to manage your PostgreSQL instances? ClusterControl supports PostgreSQL streaming replication (both asynchronous and synchronous replication) as well...
How to Backup and Restore ClusterControl
ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduced a new feature which allows you to backup your ClusterControl server and restore it (together with metadata about your managed databases) onto another server. It backs up the ClusterControl application as well...
Deploying and Managing PostgreSQL 11: New in ClusterControl 1.7.1
A few days ago was the release of a new version of ClusterControl, the 1.7.1, where we can see several new features, one of the main ones being the support for PostgreSQL 11. To install...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.1: Support for PostgreSQL 11 and MongoDB 4.0, Enhanced Monitoring
We are excited to announce the 1.7.1 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure! ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces the next iteration of our agent-based...
PostgreSQL Replication for Disaster Recovery
With Disaster Recovery, we aim to set up systems to handle anything that could go wrong with our database. What happens if the database crashes? What if a developer accidently truncates a table? What if...
Multiple Delayed Replication Slaves for Disaster Recovery with Low RTO
Delayed replication allows a replication slave to deliberately lag behind the master by at least a specified amount of time. Before executing an event, the slave will first wait, if necessary, until the given time...
Database Backup Encryption – Best Practices
Offsite backup storage should be a critical part of any organisation’s disaster recovery plan. The ability to store data in a separate physical location, where it could survive a catastrophic event which destroys all the...
Database Backups – Comparing MariaDB Mariabackup and Percona Xtrabackup
Your database server stores some of your enterprise’s most valuable information. Guaranteeing reliable database backups to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or hardware failure is a critical checkbox. Whether it is...
Cloud Backup Options for PostgreSQL
This blog was updated on 11/27/18 and 11/29/18 to make changes as recommended by our awesome commentors! As with any other component of a business, databases are extremely important its inner workings. Whether it’s the core...
How to Encrypt Your MySQL & MariaDB Backups
We usually take care of things we value, whether it is an expensive smartphone or the company’s servers. Data is one of the most important assets of the organisation, and although we do not see...