Dear Simon,

Thank you for your reply.

I don't think I want to backup the whole Windows operating system.

I will just use mysqldump to backup and restore MariaDB databases.

Thank you.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore






On Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 at 9:40 PM, Simon Avery 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Turritopsis,
> 
> On backups:
> 
> If the windows machines are vms, then back up the vms themselves. Quickest 
> way to restore, and with a decent snapshotting backup, low impact. We run a 
> backup of each vm every hour or so, retaining a week's worth - and then have 
> normal backups as well. When we need to recover a table, then we restore the 
> vm to a new IP, dump the table and restore it on the live machine.
> 
> If they're physical machines or the above isn't suitable, then I imagine the 
> Windows version of Mariadb will come with Windows builds of its associated 
> tools - one of which will be "mysqldump" - there are plenty of guides to use 
> this, here's just one: 
> https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-backup-restore-a-mysql-database
> 
> Alternatively, there are lots of free and commercial backup solutions for 
> mariadb (and mysql which will probably also work for Maria), some of which 
> will rotate the backups and transfer them to a remote machine for you, if 
> that's what you want.
> 
> Simon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via discuss [email protected]
> 
> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2024 1:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [MariaDB discuss] Backup MariaDB Databases for Suprema BioStar 2 
> Door Access System
> 
> Subject: Backup MariaDB Databases for Suprema BioStar 2 Door Access System
> 
> Good day from Singapore,
> 
> On 7 March 2024 Thursday, when I was installing new self-signed SSL 
> certificate for the door access system for a law firm in Singapore, I notice 
> that Suprema BioStar 2 also uses the open source MariaDB database server. If 
> I did not remember wrongly, there are 3 databases.
> 
> However, the entire platform is a Windows environment, not Linux.
> 
> How can I backup all the databases in the MariaDB database server?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
> Targeted Individual in Singapore
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