Backups

MySQL is a popular database management system that is often used to manage the data from websites and applications. This guide will demonstrate how to backup the data in your MySQL databases, using a number of different methods.

In this part of the “Building for Production: Web Applications” series (4 of 6), we will set up the backup system that is required to support our recovery plan. This tutorial will focus on using Bacula as a backups solution. The benefits of using a full-fledged backup system, such as Bacula, is that it gives you full control over what you back up and restore at the individual file level, and you can schedule backups and restores according to what is best for you.