Restore

Restore a database using Veeam RMAN plug-in on an ODA

I recently wrote a blog to show how to configure Veeam RMAN plug-in to take database backups. As all DBA knows, configuring a backup, will not go without testing a restore. In this blog I will show how I tested(…)

Working with Btrfs & Snapper

In this Blog post I will try to give a pure technical cheat sheet using Btrfs on any distribution. Additionally I will explain how to use one of the most sophisticated backup/ restore tool called “snapper”. What is Btrfs(…)

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore.

Automate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell (part 2)

As promised during my last Rubrik blog post I’m writing a second one to explain how to: log your different steps in a file add an integrity check after the restore and also improve my first scripting I will(…)

Automate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell

One of our customer uses Rubrik as a solution to recover, manage, and secure all their data. In this context, Rubrik is used to backup and restore all the SQL Server instances. We need to run restore tests(…)

Recovery in the ☁ with Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I started this series of “Recovery in the ☁” with the Oracle Autonomous database. My goal is to explain the recovery procedures, especially the Point-In-Time recovery procedures(…)

Recovery in the ☁ with Oracle Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . I’ll start this series with the Oracle Autonomous database but my goal is to cover the Point In Time recovery for many managed databases in the major cloud providers. Because I’ve seen lot of confusion(…)

Restoring a database without having any controlfile backup

It should never happen but sometimes it happens. You just lost your datafiles as well as your fast recovery area (probably because most of the time these areas are on the same disks despite the recommendations). Normal restore operations with(…)

Backup and Restore PostgreSQL with PgBackRest I

By Mouhamadou Diaw Many tools can be used to backup PostgreSQL databases. In this blog I will talk about PgBackRest which is a simple tool that can be used to backup and restore a PostgreSQL database. Full,(…)

EDB BART 2.0 – How to upgrade and block level incremental backups

We already have some posts on how you can use EDB BART to backup and restore your PostgreSQL instances from one central server (EnterpriseDB Backup and Recovery Tool (BART), getting started with postgres plus(…)