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.

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.

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 ...