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Partial physical database restore for MariaDB and MySQL

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:13:47 +0000

What is it about?

When describing backup and restore scenarios, a full backup and a full restore of the database instance (mariadbd/mysqld) are usually assumed. This means that the entire database instance, including all databases (schemas), is backed up and restored.

Automated MariaDB restore tests

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:38:16 +0000

Nearly everybody does backups. But nobody needs backups! What everybody wants and needs is a working restore not a working backup…

Partial Restore of a Table into a MariaDB Galera Cluster

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:08:29 +0000

In my former Blog Post Partial Table or Schema restore from mariabackup full backup we worked out the basics of a partial restore of a table into a MariaDB database instance.

FromDual Recovery Manager (rman) with progress indicator

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:44:07 +0000

Since version 2.1.0 the FromDual Recovery Manager (rman) for MariaDB and MySQL has also a progress indicator for the restore of logical backups made with mysqldump. This feature was implemented because of the numerous requests of FromDual rman users who were not happy with the default mysql behavior.

Cool new features in FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager 2.0.0

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:49:19 +0000

A while ago we released our FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager (brman) 2.0.0 for MariaDB and MySQL. So what are the new cool features of this new release?

MySQL Enterprise Backup Incremental Cumulative and Differential Backup

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:20:32 +0000

Preparing the MySQL Enterprise Administrator Training I found that the MySQL Enterprise Backup Incremental Backup is not described very well. Thus I tried it out and wrote down this how-to:

Download FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:40:28 +0000

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager (brman) for MariaDB and MySQL

The FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager (brman) for MariaDB and MySQL is an easy to use software to do Backup, Restore and Point-in-Time-Recovery for MySQL, Galera Cluster, MariaDB and Percona Server. It integrates the utilities mysqldump, mysql, mariabackup, xtrabackup and mysqlbackup (MySQL Enterprise Backup).

MySQL table Point-in-Time-Recovery from mysqldump backup

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:42:21 +0000

Sometimes we face the situation where we have a full MySQL database backup done with mysqldump and then we have to restore and recover just one single table out of our huge mysqldump file.
Further our mysqldump backup was taken hours ago so we want to recover all the changes on that table since our backup was taken up to the end.

Impacts of max_allowed_packet size problems on your MySQL database

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:18:46 +0000

We recently run into some troubles with max_allowed_packet size problems during backups with the FromDual Backup/Recovery Manager and thus I investigated a bit more in the symptoms of such problems.

Get rid of wrongly deleted InnoDB tables

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:10:58 +0000

Precaution: Before you try this out on your production system do a BACKUP first! FromDual Backup Manager can help you with this.

Privileges of MySQL backup user for mysqldump

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:34:24 +0000

Some MySQL customers do not want to use the root user for mysqldump backups. For this user you have to grant the following minimal MySQL privileges:

Recover lost .frm files for InnoDB tables

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:51:03 +0000

Recently I found in a forum the following request for help:

MySQL Restore and Recovery methods

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:19:14 +0000

Backup is for sissies! Let’s have a look what we can do when we are not a sissy…

MySQL Questions & Answers

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:15:25 +0000

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Can you trust your MySQL backup?

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:06:00 +0000

Today a customer with corrupted data files showed up. When we enquired a bit more he told us that he had a broken I/O controller. This is one of the worst things which can happen to you!

MySQL Cluster restore

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:05:00 +0000

Recently the question came up if it is faster to restore a MySQL cluster when all nodes are up or only ONE node from each node group during restore.

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:17:00 +0100

Coming soon…

Have also a look at the Backup and Recovery Manager Documentation.

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.3.2 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:41:15 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.3.2 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.3.1 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:25:13 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.3.1 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.3.0 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:12:02 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.3.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.5 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:53:20 +0100

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.5 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.4 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:14:05 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.4 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.3 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:35:43 +0100

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.3 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

Partial Table or Schema restore from mariabackup full backup

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:59:19 +0100

For me it was for a long time not clear if a mariadb-backup full backup can be used to do partial table or schema restores. Now we faced this challenge with a customer. So time to try it out…

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.2 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:22:07 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.2 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL 0.9.2 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:50:25 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.2 of its popular FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL focmm.

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.1 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:12:01 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.1 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.2.0 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:51:10 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

Oops! - That SQL Query was not intended... Flashback

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:12:00 +0200

It is Saturday night at 23:19. Time to go to bed after a hard migration day. Just a last clean-up query before finishing: Tap tap tap. Enter! - Oops!

FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL 0.9.1 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 07 May 2019 17:12:19 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.1 of its popular FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL focmm.

FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL 0.9 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:17:40 +0200

Caution: We have introduced an evil bug which prohibits installation of focmm. Sorry! Somehow it did pass our QA. To fix this bug update file lib/Upgrade.inc on Line 1965 as follows:

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.1.0 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:14:23 +0100

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.1.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL 2.0.0 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:25:51 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.0.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL 1.2.5 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Wed, 10 May 2017 15:26:15 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.5 of the popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL and MariaDB (fromdual_brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL 1.2.4 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:22:12 +0100

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.4 of the popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL and MariaDB (fromdual_brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL 1.2.3 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:50:20 +0100

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.3 of the popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL and MariaDB (fromdual_brman).

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL 1.2.2 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:33:28 +0200

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.2 of the popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL and MariaDB (fromdual_bman).

How is a correct MariaDB/MySQL backup done?

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 18 May 2015 07:40:00 +0200

You find many different possibilities how to do a MariaDB/MySQL backup with mariadb-dump/mysqldump. But which one is the correct one?

FromDual Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL 1.2.1 has been released

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:12:43 +0100

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.1 of the popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MySQL and MariaDB (fromdual_bman).