This brief tutorial shows you how to backup and restore MariaDB databases and data files on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04.

MariaDB 10.1 introduced a new backup feature called Mariabackup.

Mariabackup is an an open source tool provided by MariaDB for performing physical online backups of InnoDB, Aria and MyISAM tables. It also enabled “hot online” backups for InnoDB tables.

Mariabackup doesn’t only back up databases, it also backs up many different files in order to perform its backup and restore operations.

To get started with backing up and restoring MariaDB data, follow the steps below:

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