If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.

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, ...

I’m going to assume your website depends on a MySQL database, runs on Apache, and /var/www/html is your document root. To make this backup/restore happen, you’ll need a user with root privileges.

Using Cobian Backup to restore your data Most backup programs store the backed up data in proprietary file formats that require you to use the same backup program to restore your data.

The hard disk on my Linux machine recently filled up, so I had to get a bigger disk and resinstall. Before I replaced the drive I backed up a MySQL database I had on the system. All I did was copy ...