Rsync is a simple tool for intelligently syncing local and remote directories. In this article we will explore the basic usage of this utility to copy files from directory to directory and from system to system.

Being able to import and export your database is an important skill to have. You can use data dumps for backup and restoration purposes, so you can recover older copies of your database in case of an emergency, or you...

This second installment of "Scaling Web Applications" will list out the steps necessary for scaling a mysql deployment over two VPS.

Once your application is up and running in a cloud server environment, you may be wondering how you can improve your server environment to make the leap from "it works" to a full-fledged production environment. This a...

PostgreSQL, or postgres, is a popular database management system often used to manage the information from websites and applications. In this guide, we will configure a master server postgres replication set up, whic...

MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL database engines. It is famous for being scalable, powerful, reliable and easy to use. In this article we'll show you how to back up, restore, and migrate your MongoDB databases.

MySQL is a popular database management system that is often used to manage the data from websites and applications. This guide will demonstrate how to backup the data in your MySQL databases, using a number of differ...

PostgreSQL is a popular database management system that can be used to handle the data from your website or application. This article will discuss methods of backing up PostgreSQL databases to ensure that your inform...

In this tutorial you'll set up a Barman backup server, make a backup from a primary PostgreSQL database server, and restore to a standby server. This creates a physical backup of the entire database with snapshots at ...

Velero is a convenient backup tool for Kubernetes clusters that compresses and backs up Kubernetes objects to object storage. It also takes snapshots of your cluster’s Persistent Volumes using your cloud provider’s bl...

This tutorial will demonstrate how to plan and set up a sample production application from start to finish. Hopefully, this will help you plan and implement your own production server environment, even if you are runn...

This article provides a quick way to backup the most common things in a typical web hosting scenario: website files and database data. We will setup a full daily backup of a website folder and a copying of this data t...

Bacula is an open-source network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the server components...

Redis is an in-memory, key-value cache and store (a database, that is) that can also be persisted (saved permanently) to disk. In this article, you'll read how to back up a Redis database on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. Re...

Bacula is an open-source network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the server components...

When dealing with any kind of important data, it is essential that you implement a backup scheme. There are many different ways to back up data on a VPS. In this guide, we will discuss some ways that you can backup ...

Duplicity is a simple backup solution that can be used to backup data from a VPS instance to another VPS or a local machine. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install duplicity on Ubuntu and configure it to p...

This tutorial will show you how to perform a full hot backup of your MySQL or MariaDB databases using Percona XtraBackup on Ubuntu 14.04. The resulting database backup can then be copied to a remote server with a trad...

BitTorrent Sync is an application that can configure directory synchronization between servers, desktop computers, and mobile devices. In this guide, we will install and configure syncing between two Ubuntu servers u...

Databases are often some of the most important systems in your infrastructure due to the value of the information they store. Because of this, it is important to have reliable backups to guard against data loss in the...