True Backup Management covers an umbrella of tasks, including defining policies, monitoring the health of backup processes, encrypting your backup data, transferring to external data centers, managing retention, verifying that the data can be recovered, all of which should be automated by your backup solution. Here are some resources to help you define your backup strategy.
This whitepaper discusses the two most popular backup utilities available for MySQL and MariaDB, namely mysqldump and Percona XtraBackup. It further covers topics such as how database features like binary logging and replication can be leveraged in backup strategies. And it provides best practices that can be applied to high availability topologies in order to make database backups reliable, secure and consistent.
