MariaDB Backup and Restore

MariaDB database backup is quite similar to saving data from MySQL tables. Handy Backup performs MariaDB backup by implementing the dedicated plug-in that is only slightly different from the popular MySQL data source. Here is the brief description of this MariaDB backup tool.

New Configuring Options

The process of connection with MariaDB server instance bears some differences with the similar process of establishing connection with a copy of the traditional MySQL database engine.
Therefore, “MariaDB” and “MySQL” database-copying plug-ins can be different in many features.

MariaDB Hot Backup

Handy Backup can complete MariaDB backup database in either cold or hot engine mode, where the hot mode saves the table content when MariaDB DBMS will running. This technique ensures backup quickness and accuracy, although some data in contemporary transactions may be lost during hot backup. Therefore, you can need for periodical cold backup.

Unified MariaDB Backup and Restore Plug-in Type

This plug-in supports natively all versions of MariaDB including an actual MariaDB 10.1.6 and earlier. Users can access by using the plug-in not only to local MariaDB bases but also to remote servers, just as for MySQL feature.

Other Backup Features

Some other options touching backing up and restoring MariaDB are shortly mentioned in the next list:

• Using local and external drives for storing table content, as well as operating MariaDB online backup;
• Backup MariaDB incremental, differential or mixed modes and versioning backups;
• Keeping databases in native formats when stored, with compression and encryption;
• Scheduling data saving and recovery tasks on a regular period from minutes to months;
• Advanced controlling options, including running as Windows service and user notifications.

These and many other features turns Handy Backup into a powerful server solution for keeping and cloning copies of MariaDB content. Note that MariaDB is no more than one of Handy Backup plug-ins, e.g. you do not need to purchase a separate edition for saving MariaDB only!

Handy Backup outstands any other popular database backup solution by unification, automation and effectiveness. To compare Handy Backup features with some most popular utilities allowing backing up data from MariaDB, let us mention these solutions.

• MySQL Backup (InnoDB Hot Backup). This utility can MariaDB information. It has a heavy price tag of $5000 per a single instance by subscription, and also provides no such features as partial and compressed backup.
• Utility mysqldump. This commonly distributed command-line tool is common for user-defined scripts dumping MariadB data. This simple software requires a lot of skills and knowledge to use it properly, and can lock a database for too long time.

In other hand, Handy Backup provides a fully automated, quick and stable job without any special requirements for users. A price tag is also quite reasonable for both server-level editions already including MariaDB backup tool into the package or for a separately purchased option.