MySQL Backup and Recovery
Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.
With ZRM for MySQL you can:
- Schedule full and incremental logical or raw backups of your MySQL database
- Perform backup that is the best match for your storage engine and your MySQL configuration
- Get e-mail notification about status of your backups
- Monitor and obtain reports about your backups (including RSS feeds!!!)
- Verify your backup images
- Compress and encrypt your backup images
- Implement Site or Application specific backup policies
- Recover database easily to any point in time or to any particular database event
- Custom plugins to tailor MySQL backups to your environment
Documentation
- Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL users manual
- Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL Man pages
- MySQL ZRM how-to document for debian sarge distribution
- MySQL ZRM download info for debian sarge package for 1.0.3 version
- White paper on installing, configuring, backing up and restoring MySQL database in 15 minutes using ZRM for MySQL.
Releases
- Release 1.1.2 (November 21, '06)
- Debian packaging
- Support for MySQL 4.0.24
- Bug fixes
- Release 1.1.1 (November 2, '06)
- FHS compliance
- Bug fixes
- Release 1.1 (October 18, '06)
- Backup compression and encryption
- Custom plugins to tailor backups to user environment
- Backup reports as RSS feeds
- Automatic backup report generation after every backup run
- Bug fixes
- Release 1.0.3 (September 22, '06)
- HTML reports
- Bug fixes
- Release 1.0.2 (September 14, '06)
- Verification of backup images
- Predefined backup reports and report formatting
- Tools for selective restoration of database
- Bug fixes
- Release 1.0.1 (September 07, '06)
- Support for backup retention policy
- Additional backup performance parameters - read-locks-time, flush-logs-time for comparing backup performance between backup runs and backup methods.
- Various bug fixes
- Release 1.0 (August 31, '06)
- Initial release with support for MySQL server backup, recovery, scheduling and reporting.