If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.

Setting up database replication is one of the most reliable means of getting a real-time backup of your MariaDB data. See how easy this is to achieve.

The hard disk on my Linux machine recently filled up, so I had to get a bigger disk and resinstall. Before I replaced the drive I backed up a MySQL database I had on the system. All I did was copy ...