How Do I Know if My PostgreSQL Backup is Good?
Backups are a must in all Disaster Recovery Plan. It might not always be enough to guarantee an acceptable Recovery Point Objective, but is a good first approach. The problem is what happens if, in...
Managing Database Backup Retention Schedules
Attention: Skip reading this blog post if you can afford unlimited storage space. If you could afford unlimited storage space, you wouldn't have to worry about backup retention at all, since you could store your...
Announcing the Beta Launch of Backup Ninja
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;...
Tips for Storing PostgreSQL Backups on Google Cloud (GCP)
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...
Using Backups to Fix Common Failure Scenarios for MongoDB
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....
The Most Common PostgreSQL Failure Scenarios
There is not a perfect system, hardware, or topology to avoid all the possible issues that could happen in a production environment. Overcoming these challenges requires an effective DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan), configured according to...
Tips for Storing PostgreSQL Backups on Amazon AWS
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...
A Guide to MySQL Galera Cluster Restoration Using mysqldump
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...
How to Use pgBackRest to Backup PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB
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...
Automate Deployment of Your MySQL or Postgres Cluster From Backup
ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces a new feature called Create Cluster from Backup, which allows you to deploy a new MySQL or Postgres-based cluster and restore data on it from a backup. This blog post shows how...
How to Backup and Restore ClusterControl
ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduced a new feature which allows you to backup your ClusterControl server and restore it (together with metadata about your managed databases) onto another server. It backs up the ClusterControl application as well...
Deploying and Managing PostgreSQL 11: New in ClusterControl 1.7.1
A few days ago was the release of a new version of ClusterControl, the 1.7.1, where we can see several new features, one of the main ones being the support for PostgreSQL 11. To install...