From Bacularis 4.5.0 there are available two new plugins for backing up the MariaDB and MySQL databases with using Bacula.
Bacularis 4.5.0 provides the MariaDB and MySQL database backup plugins. Both plugins support the logical and physical online backup, backing up for Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) and also important database server files backup. All of these functions create complete environment for backing up the MariaDB and MySQL databases. It includes database protection but also the database system data such as information about users, roles, permissions/grants and others.
The plugins in the dump method supports real full, incremental and differential database backups. For the binary physical backup method it supports the full and incremental database backup. All details about both plugins you can read in the Bacularis documentation:
https://bacularis.app/doc/plugins/database/mysql-backup-plugin.html
https://bacularis.app/doc/plugins/database/mariadb-backup-plugin.html
We prepared serie of five video guides that show how the plugins works and how to use them. We encourage to watch them below. Have a good watching!