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MySQL Backups: Methods & Best Practices

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However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups.

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MySQL Backup and Recovery Best Practices: The Ultimate Guide

Percona

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. MySQL itself does not provide the capability for taking file system snapshots but it is available using third-party solutions such as LVM or ZFS. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

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To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it.

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Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Percona

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding With Best Practices & When To Enable It

Percona

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.