This project successfully automated the provisioning of a MySQL database on an Azure VM, implemented a robust backup strategy, and integrated with Azure Blob Storage for scalable, secure storage.

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.

Automate-MySQL-database-backup-and-restoration Code explanation overview: The Bash script implements an autonomous procedure which permits users to create MySQL database backups while offering backup ...

MySQL and MariaDB include two command-line tools that you can use to quickly backup and restore databases. The mysqldump tool is used to export the contents of a database to a text file, while the ...

Keep it going You’re ready to continue the work. In a future article, I’ll explain how to automate the process of backing up your databases, as well as how to restore a database from a backup.

Granular recovery: ZRM for MySQL can recover a database to any point in time or to any particular database event between two backups.

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, ...

Restoring from a MySQL dump is simple: you just pipe its contents into the mysql command itself, again using an account with appropriate permissions. Here's a full example of backup and restore of ...