Percona, the company that makes MySQL faster and more reliable, today announced the Percona Backup Service, a managed service that ensures properly configured MySQL server backups run successfully ...

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

Online backup Online Backup was introduced in MySQL 6.0. Apart from performing the usual backup tasks the new feature is that it does not block the concurrent connections to the database.

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.

Setting up database replication is one of the most reliable means of getting a real-time backup of your MariaDB data. See how easy this is to achieve.