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.

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.

Although the restore options are powerful, they do require command-line knowledge and a certain amount of familiarity with rdiff-backup. To ease the end-user experience, let's look at rdiffWeb, a ...

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 ...