The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Recently, I had a chance to test the community edition of Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. I was partly testing to make sure it worked with MariaDB, Monty Program's drop-in replacement for MySQL, ...

In general, full image copy backups are recommended for database objects where 30%–40% or more of the data blocks are modified between backups. The DBA makes this determination based not just on data ...

Elaborate backups might seem like a good idea at first, but they add unnecessary complexity to your recovery process. Here are some things to keep in mind to make ...

A universal CLI tool for creating post-quantum encrypted database backups that are automatically emailed to recipients. Supports Supabase, MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. ⚠️ IMPORTANT: Keep your ...

In previous articles, we have looked at an introduction to cloud databases in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), as well as various concepts and tools for managing OCI’s Database as a Service (DBAAS).

Some users have reported that the kavita.db file is missing in backups. At first glance it seems like if the file is in use when the backup job fires off it will not copy the database. If nothing else ...