MySQL & MariaDB Backups You Can Actually Restore
A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a plan. We design, validate, and harden MySQL and MariaDB backup pipelines for teams that cannot afford surprises.
Where Backup Strategies Usually Break
Cron jobs that “succeed” while writing incomplete dumps. Physical backups with no retention map. Binary logs that rotate away before anyone notices. Cloud snapshots that look fine until someone asks for a single table from Tuesday at 14:17.
We work with MySQL and MariaDB environments in the US and Europe — self-managed, Galera, RDS, and Aurora — and we treat restore time as part of the design, not an afterthought.
Backup & Recovery Work We Do
Physical Backups
Non-blocking Mariabackup / XtraBackup pipelines with incremental chains, encryption at rest, and offsite retention that matches your RPO.
- • Full + incremental schedules
- • Compression and encryption
- • Storage lifecycle policies
Point-in-Time Recovery
Binlog retention, GTID-aware restore paths, and documented PITR procedures so “undo that drop table” is a drill, not a first-time experiment.
- • Binlog shipping and retention
- • PITR runbooks
- • Partial restore options
Restore Drills
We restore into isolated environments on a schedule, measure RTO, and fix gaps before an incident forces the issue at 2 a.m.
- • Scheduled restore tests
- • RTO / RPO measurement
- • Alerting on backup failures
Tools We Work With Daily
Related: Disaster Recovery · MySQL Support · MariaDB Consulting
Not Sure Your Last Backup Would Restore Cleanly?
Send us how backups run today. We will tell you what is solid, what is fragile, and what to fix first — without turning it into a six-month project unless you need one.