Zmanda Recovery Manager is a perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

-based utility used to automate backup

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

 and recovery of MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 databases. It is released under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL is used by MySQL DBAs to do backup and recovery of live MySQL databases, which can be either local or remote. ZRM uses the most appropriate backup method based on the particular storage engine being used by MySQL, or the particular storage infrastructure being used (e.g. it can use snapshots for instant full backups if LVM, ZFS, NetApp or VxFS are being used).

Product Versions

Zmanda

Zmanda

Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.-Open Source Projects:...

 offers three versions of ZRM for MySQL: the ZRM Enterprise edition, the ZRM Cluster edition and the ZRM Community edition.
The Enterprise edition includes a graphical installer, Zmanda Management Console (ZMC), command-line interface and plugin framework.
The Community edition is a freely downloadable subset of the Enterprise edition, licensed under the GNU GPLv2. It supports LVM snapshots, but does not include the ZMC or the graphical installer.

ZRM server runs on Windows, Solaris and most Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 distributions, including Red Hat and Ubuntu. When backing up MySQL databases on Solaris, ZRM is able to take benefit of snapshot feature of ZFS

Integration with other software

ZRM has been integrated:

• By Zmanda
  Zmanda
  Zmanda Inc. is an Open Source and Cloud backup software company. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.. In partnership with open source companies such as Sun and MySQL, the company contributes to many open source projects.-Open Source Projects:...
  
   for use with Tivoli Storage Manager via a MySQL Database
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
  backup agent
• By VM Farmsfor use with XtraDB database engine
• ZRM is integrated with Symantec NetBackup software , providing a MySQL backup agent for NetBackup.

External links

1. Company website
2. Hands-on review of Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL
3. The Register article on integration of ZRM with Tivoli