Backing Up and Restoring Databases

There are a number of ways to backup a MariaDB server.

Title Description
Backup and Restore Overview Backing up and restoring MariaDB.
Replication as a Backup Solution Replication can be used to support the backup strategy.
mysqldump Dump a database or a collection of databases in a portable format.
Mariabackup Physical backups, supports Data-at-Rest and InnoDB compression.
mysqlhotcopy Fast backup program on local machine. Deprecated.
Percona XtraBackup Open source tool for performing hot backups of MariaDB, MySQL and Percona Server databases.
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