Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service to create and operate relational databases online. With this service, you get to automate time-consuming tasks like hardware configuration, database setup, or patch deployment. Amazon...

With containers, there are a couple of ways that you can backup and restore your data. The most typical way to do data backups for databases in container environments is by creating database dumps. Unlike...

Amazon Web Services is a technology giant, especially when it comes to pioneering itself in top-of-the-line cloud computing services. Its fully managed services products (Amazon RDS) is one of a kind. But then again, while...

Large organizations that are using MySQL or MariaDB database platforms are often faced with a need to perform a database migration from one place to another. Regardless of the platform, type of database software (such...

There must be many powerful tools available as a backup and restore option for PostgreSQL in general; Barman, PgBackRest, BART are to name a few in this context. What caught our attention was that Barman...

SOC 2 is an auditing procedure, developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), that seeks to verify if your service providers are securely managing your data to protect the interests of your business and...

A security consideration when setting up your custom storage using MinIO is encryption. By and large, setting up MinIO securely entails encryption in-transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, Server-Side Encryption with Client-provided keys (SSE-C)...

MariaDB Enterprise Backup is a backup solution from MariaDB Corporation with a number of features such as non-blocking backups, full backup, incremental backup, partial backup and Point in Time Recovery. We often get questions about...

Multi-cloud deployments of open source databases require considerations such as high availability, scalability, resiliency, backups, and disaster recovery. In this blog, we will emphasize the importance of database backups in the cloud which provide you...

Having a backup plan is a must when running a database in production. Running a backup every day, however, can eventually lead to an excess of backup storage space, especially when running on premises.  One...

Managing backups could be a complex and risky task to do in a manual way. You must know that the backup is working according to your backup policy as you don’t want to be in...

pg_basebackup is a simple but powerful utility provided by PostgreSQL to take online and consistent file system-level backups. The backups created using this command contain the actual database files so you don’t need to actually...