Enterprise-level backup solutions are usually packed with all kinds of features and can support a plethora of different target storage types – disks, tapes, cloud storage, virtual machines ...

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.

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.

It's always a good idea to make a backup of a MySQL database before you do anything major, such as merging tables. This can be done by utilizing the "Export Database" option from the phpMyAdmin ...