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When designing you backup strategy which involves using XtraBackup, it is often part of the job to be able to rotate backups not to fill the disks and not be able to take further backups. However, sometimes I've seen people how they can do this when...

rdiff-backup is a great tool for mirroring or backing up files locally and between remote servers. It is based on rsync and works on top of SSH. To this note, I recently encountered one caveat when using the --user-mapping-file and --group-mapping-file...

Maatkit's mk-parallel-dump and mk-parallel-restore are great tools for quickly dumping and restoring your MySQL databases. I mean "quick" because it does this via user configurable number of threads. However, if you're new to the tools, you may encounter...