Simplified Backup & Recovery Management for Polyglot Database Infrastructures

ClusterControl’s centralized backup management for polyglot database environments provides you with hot backups of large datasets, point in time recovery in a couple of clicks, at-rest and in-transit data encryption, data integrity via automatic restore verification, cloud backups (AWS, Google and Azure) for Disaster Recovery, retention policies to ensure compliance, and automated alerts and reporting.

One Centralised Backup System to Protect, Secure and Recover Your Business Data

ClusterControl is the centralized backup system for your open source databases. Its point-in-time restore capability ensures lower RPO, while automatic tests of backups ensure data integrity. It reports on which databases are not backed up, and on backup success and failure. Disaster recovery and data archival (on-prem or in the cloud) further complement its backup capabilities, including retention policies for compliance. Automatic data encryption, whether at-rest or in-transit, helps ensure the security of your business data.
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Why You Should Use ClusterControl for Backups

Protection for all your
business data

  • One centralized backup system for your open source databases
  • Lower RPO with point-in-time restore
  • Automatic test of backups ensures data integrity
  • Reports on which databases are not backed up, or backup success/failure

Cost effective disaster recovery & data archival on-prem or cloud

  • Retention policies for compliance
  • Data is compressed, encrypted and can be automatically uploaded to AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage or Azure Storage

Security for all your
business data

Automatic data encryption

  • At-rest
  • In-transit

Backup Management Top Features

Backup GUI
Automatic Restore Verification
Cloud Backup Integration
Backup Encryption
Backup GUI
ClusterControl provides an additional layer of backup management on top of popular technology-specific tools that are controlled and configured through a simple-to-use user interface (GUI). These tools include: Percona XtraBackup, MariaDB Backup, mysqldump, pg_dump, pg_basebackup, mongodump, MongoDB Consistent Backup, MySQL NDB Backup.
Automatic Restore Verification
Allows users to set up a server with the same requirements as their primary one; and define the backup parameters and whether the test server should become visible in the ClusterControl GUI for long term or just temporarily. ClusterControl runs backups on a new server and several tests to ensure everything works. The server then remains or is removed based on what option was chosen. ClusterControl allows you to run a “test restore” on your backup and runs several backend processes to ensure that the backup is valid and ready for restoration.
Cloud Backup Integration
ClusterControl provides full integration with the top cloud hosting providers to store database backups in the cloud. From the ClusterControl GUI backups can be executed, scheduled, downloaded and restored directly from your cloud provider of choice. This means you can leverage, for your archiving needs, the same scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage architectures used by Amazon, Google and Azure.
Backup Encryption
Backups performed by ClusterControl are encrypted at rest using the AES-256 CBC algorithm. An auto-generated key is stored in the cluster's configuration file under /etc/cmon.d. The backed up files are then transferred in encrypted format.

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More Features

Backup GUI
The ClusterControl GUI allows you to define, track and report on the backup process regardless of technology. The scheduler then lets you define retention, set auto-deletion, and maintain both local disk and cloud backups using separate timers. The ClusterControl Backup GUI also allows you to specify specific names for your backups.
Logical & Physical Backups
ClusterControl can perform logical backups (which include a list of the SQL statements) or physical backups (which is a binary, one-to-one copy of your database).
Full & Incremental Backups
When ClusterControl runs its backup processes, it can backup the full database or it can only backup that data which has changed since the last backup.
Compression of Backup Data
When ClusterControl runs its backup processes, it can backup the full database or it can only backup that data which has changed since the last backup.
Backup Operational Report
ClusterControl provides a Backup Operational Report summarising the backup history of all clusters that includes the latest backups, failure reporting, failure rate and in-depth details of each backup ran.
Backup GUI - Procedures
ClusterControl utilizes battle-tested backup procedures using technology-specific methods including Percona XtraBackup, MariaDB Backup, mysqldump, pg_dump, pg_basebackup, mongodump, MongoDB Consistent Backup, MySQL NDB Backup.

Top Backup Management Resources

Whitepaper
The DevOps Guide to Database Backups for MySQL & MariaDB
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Disaster Recovery Planning for MySQL & MariaDB
Webinar replay
Tutorial: Backup Tips for MySQL, MariaDB & Galera Cluster
Blog
Top Backup Tools for PostgreSQL
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How to Schedule Database Backups with ClusterControl
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How to Perform Efficient Backup for MySQL and MariaDB

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Explore All ClusterControl Features

Backup & Management

ClusterControl’s comprehensive backup management provides continuous data protection for your open source databases across local and cloud environments.
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Monitoring & Alerting

ClusterControl provides a unified view of all your database deployments across multiple datacenters, letting you see the big picture or drilling down into individual nodes.
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Deployment & Scaling

ClusterControl’s point-and-click interface lets you automate deployment and scaling of database setups securely to get production-ready environments up and running in a very short time.
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Upgrades & Patching

ClusterControl ensures your databases stay up-to-date and compliant, reducing maintenance time by helping you apply upgrades and patches using battle-tested procedures.
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Security & Compliance

ClusterControl ensures that your open source database deployments always adhere to the security model setups for each technology and keeps your critical data safe through encryption.
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Operational Reporting

ClusterControl provides you with comprehensive operational reports on the health and stability of your database operations.
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Configuration Management

ClusterControl makes configuring your databases easy by providing you battle-tested templates as well as making it easy to edit the configuration for your unique setup.
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Automatic Recovery & Repair

The advanced automated failover technology in ClusterControl ensures your mission critical applications achieve high availability with zero downtime.
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Performance Management

ClusterControl provides advanced monitoring and reporting features to let you easily keep a close eye on the performance of your database setups.
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Cloud

ClusterControl lets you deploy and run highly-available database clusters to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
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