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.

The low-cost, open-source backup and recovery package is tuned specifically for MySQL requirements, the company says.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...