Right off the bat, I’ll tell you that there is no completely secure way to automate your MariaDB backups. I researched this for awhile and haven’t found one yet. That isn’t to say there aren’t ways to mitigate your risk, but as some point you’re going to need to store your password somewhere. If you are unwilling to invite any risk to your databases, your best options are to automate entire ba ...
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Please Encrypt Your Databases (MariaDB)
Security is often one of the last things IT professionals think about when starting a project. Most of the time tight deadlines and an overworked staff lead to a less than perfect implementation. Security, along with other important things…looking at you Documentation…get pushed to the back burner and sometimes forgotten about altogether. One safeguard that is seldom implemented is database ...
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Migrating From MySQL 5.7 to MariaDB 10.2 on Ubuntu 16.04
For those unfamiliar with MariaDB, it’s a fork of MySQL that is dedicated to remaining free to use. It was created the day Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems in 2010 who had previously acquired MySQL in 2008. MariaDB was built by the very developers who worked on MySQL and for most users the transition to MariaDB should be fairly painless. All of the clients and tools that work with MySQL wor ...
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