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.
- Schedule full and incremental logical or raw backups of your MySQL database
- Centralized backup management
- 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
- Storage/filesystem snapshots as backups
Documentation
Presentations/White papers
Websites
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Releases
- Release 2.1 (Dec 9, '08)
- Support for storage snapshots as backups
- Converting storage snapshots into regular backups
- Support for MySQL 5.1GA
- Release 2.0 (Apr 3, '08)
- Solaris packages
- ZRM clients for Linux (RPM/Debian) and Solaris
- Tested on Gentoo distribution
- Improved Snapshot interface
- Solaris ZFS snapshot plugin
- Backup of remote servers using snapshots
- Asychronous checksum calculations
- Backup compression on the fly for logical backups
- Release 1.2.1 (Sept, 14, '07)
- Source tar ball (including debian package files)
- Help from ZRM online sites
- Code restructured into modules.
- Snapshot plugin interface. LVM snapshots implemented as a plugin.
- ZRM should be run as n user belonging to the mysql group.
- Release 1.1.5 (March, 12 '07)
- New restore options: --mysql-shutdown and --no-mysql-shutdown
- Do automatic report generation only if html-report-dir is specified.
- Support for aborting backup runs
- Support for character sets and stored routines
- Support for Ubuntu and MySQL enterprise server
- Configuration parameters read by the custom plugins
- Debian packaging
- Support for MySQL 4.0.24
- FHS compliance
- 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
- Release 1.0 (August 31, '06)
- Initial release with support for MySQL server backup, recovery, scheduling and reporting.
- HTML reports
- Verification of backup images
- Predefined backup reports and report formatting
- Tools for selective restoration of database
- 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.
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