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.

Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

Key-value A key-value database is one of many not-only SQL (NoSQL) databases with a single schema consisting of keys and values, where you can look up the value if you know the key.

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.

Here, Knowledge Center contributor Brent Ozar outlines seven actions database administrators can perform to build a sound database backup and recovery strategy.

PowerShell offers a lightweight and efficient solution for backing up SQL Server Express databases on local workstations without the need for full system backups.

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached 'general availability' status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.