Organisations from any industry, big or small, rely heavily on the database as the spine of an IT infrastructure. This infrastructure is used for automated data collection, processing, analytics, and all other data related systems....

Database systems have a responsibility to store and ensure consistent availability of relevant data whenever needed at any time in operation. Most companies fail to continue with business after cases of data loss as a...

We recently ran into an interesting customer support case involving a MariaDB replication setup. We spent a lot of time researching this problem and thought it would be worth sharing this with you in this...

The need to achieve database High Availability is a pretty common task, and often a must. If your company has a limited budget, then maintaining a replication slave (or more than one) that is running...

A disaster usually causes an outage, which can result in system downtime and potential loss of business-critical data. Once a blackout is detected, we trigger our disaster recovery plan to recover from it. But it...

With the technology available today there is no excuse for failing to recover your data due to lack of backup policies or understanding of how vital it is to take backups as part of your...

Production interruptions are nearly guaranteed to happen at some point in time. We know it so we plan backups, create recovery standby databases, convert single instances into clusters. Admitting the need for a proper recovery...

When it comes to backups and data archiving, IT departments are often under stress to meet stringent service level agreements as well as deliver more robust backup procedures that would minimize the downtime, speed up...

Amazon released S3 in early 2006 and the first tool enabling PostgreSQL backup scripts to upload data in the cloud — s3cmd — was born just shy of a year later. By 2010 (according to...

Severalnines is excited to launch our newest product Backup Ninja. Currently in beta, Backup Ninja is a simple, secure, and cost-effective SaaS service you can use to backup the world’s most popular open source databases;...

Backups are a very important part of your database operations, as your business must be secured when catastrophe strikes. When that time comes (and it will), your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective...

If you are managing a production database, chances are high that you’ve had to clone your database to a different server other than the production server. The basic method of creating a clone is to...