Alternatives to Mariabackup
MariaDB's bundled hot physical backup tool. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Mariabackup
MariaDB's bundled hot physical backup tool.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Mariabackup.
Percona XtraBackup
Hot physical backup for MySQL and Percona Server.
Percona XtraBackup provides hot physical backups for MySQL and Percona Server on Linux, but it does not understand MariaDB encryption and compression.
WAL-G
Archival backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server.
WAL-G streams MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server backups to object storage with compression, encryption and delta backups, but it is Linux only.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
mongodump
A MongoDB command-line tool that writes a binary BSON export of a database for backup or migration.
pgBackRest
Parallel backup and restore for PostgreSQL with delta restore.
Barman
Backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL disaster recovery.
HeidiSQL
A long-running Windows client for MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Firebird, small and quick.
phpMyAdmin
Web-based administration for MySQL and MariaDB.
