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...

Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is a fully managed database service to create and manage PostgreSQL relational databases using a Google Cloud Console. Google Cloud for PostgreSQL gives you more time to spend on developing...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

The GrandFather-Father-Son (GFS) is one of the most commonly used backup strategies used by businesses. GFS normally consists of three backup cycles such as daily, weekly, or monthly; though, other cycles like quarterly and yearly...

Of the common backup schemes, the Tower of Hanoi seems to be the most complex of them all. The scheme is named after a puzzle game where a player must move a tower of disks...

Google Cloud SQL is a managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Even if you are new to managed database services, it just takes a few minutes to set up Google Cloud SQL...

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...

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is another service by Amazon, which allows you to deploy a scalable relational database in minutes in the cloud without the need to worry about infrastructure setup during the...

Database migrations can impose huge challenges when you consider how to start, what tools to use, and how to achieve a full database migration successfully. Earlier, we have listed the top open source you can...