How you back up your database depends three factors: how the database is delivered to you, the backup logistics of the database, and the recovery time objective (RTO) and the recovery point objective ...

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How to back up and restore MySQL/MariaDB data for a website Your email has been sent If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up ...

Backing Up the Data-Driven Enterprise As Data Scales, So Do Backup and Recovery Challenges Many organizations are challenged to manage, back up, and secure hundreds of siloed databases, the survey ...

Several scenarios and reasons exist for regularly backing up an Exchange Server database, from data corruption to accidentally deleting files to system crashes to cybersecurity attacks. Microsoft's ...

As a DBA, establishing a reasonable backup schedule for your databases can be a challenging project. It requires you to balance two competing demands: the need to take image copy backups frequently ...

I recently walked you through the process of installing the Borgmatic open-source backup solution. In that tutorial, I showed you how to back up directories on your Linux servers with Borgmatic. This ...

Zmanda expects to release in one month a major upgrade of its open source backup solution that enables disastery recovery to the cloud and new support for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, PostgreSQL, and ...

Pervasive Software said it will offer commercial support and services for the open-source database PostgreSQL, the latest attempt to shake up the multibillion-dollar database industry. Adopting a ...