If a web-based GUI is better suited to your admin skills, Jack Wallen wants to show you how to back up and restore your MySQL/MariaDB databases with one of the easiest tools on the market. Many of ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to configure the Borgmatic tool to back up your databases with ease. I recently walked you through the process of installing the Borgmatic open-source backup solution. In ...

Zmanda is now offering to back-up MySQL databases to your choice of cloud locations. It's a good move and a great cloud use-case. Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

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 ...

If I were using something like Veritas or the built in MS backup, how would I get a good backup of the database? Could I just shut down the mysql service before doing the backup? Running W2k server ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

A quick, step-by-step guide to setting up, configuring, and managing a MySQL database server on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end ...