https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/backup/ Recent content in Backup on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:54:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/carbonite-online-backup-is-a-fraud-2013-01-29/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:54:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/carbonite-online-backup-is-a-fraud-2013-01-29/ Do not listen to the hype or the advertising. Carbonite backup solution is a fraud. I never realized the extent of the failures of the software until I had a problem, which is when you expect and demand commercial software you pay for to work. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-compression-do-you-use-2012-07-13/ Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:26:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-compression-do-you-use-2012-07-13/ The following is an evaluation of various compression utilities that I tested when reviewing the various options for MySQL backup strategies. The overall winner in performance was pigz, a parallel implementation of gzip. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/checked-your-mysql-recovery-process-recently-2010-02-15/ Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:34:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/checked-your-mysql-recovery-process-recently-2010-02-15/ I sound like a broken record with every client when I talk to about the resilience of their production environments. It’s very simple in theory, however in practice many organizations fail.