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. Your company ...

I have an OS-level (WinXP) backup of a MySQL 5.0's Data directory, but no SQL file backup. Is it possible to restore from a data directory instead of an SQL script? I can copy the database's data ...

Whether you’re running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command. Your Ubuntu Server is up and running ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. There are many options for backing up databases, and ...