All companies nowadays have (or should have) a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the case of failure; built according to an acceptable Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the business. A backup...

When it comes to backups and data archiving, IT departments are under pressure to meet stricter service level agreements, deliver more custom reports, and adhere to expanding compliance requirements while continuing to manage daily archive...

Production outages are almost guaranteed to occur at some point. Accepting this fact and analyzing the timeline and failure scenario of your database outage can help better prepare, diagnose, and recover from the next one....

In the first part of the blog “An Overview of MongoDB Atlas,” we looked at getting started with MongoDB Atlas, the initial setup and migration of an existing MongoDB Cluster to MongoDB Atlas. In this...

Data is probably one of the most valuable assets in a company. Because of this we should always have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or...

High Availability is a must these days as most organizations can’t allow itself to lose its data. High Availability, however, always comes with a price tag (which can vary a lot.) Any setups which require...

Backups are the vital and important part of any disaster recovery plan, taking backups of the production database is also a basic and an important part of PostgreSQL administration. However, DBA’s don’t often validate that...

Using logical backup programs like mysqldump is a common practice performed by MySQL admins for backup and restore (the process of moving a database from one server to another) and is also the most efficient...

Your data is probably the most valuable assets in the company, so you should have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or hardware failure. A backup...

Information is one of the most valuable assets in a company, and it goes without saying that you should have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident...

Open source databases are quickly becoming mainstream, so migration from proprietary engines into open source engines is a kind of an industry trend now. It also means that we DBA’s often end up having multiple...

There are many ways to address taking backups of a PostgreSQL cluster. There are several articles and blogs which present the various technologies by which we can save our precious data in PostgreSQL. There are...