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Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.

A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features - Backup mutiple databases - Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB - Compress backup files - Backup remote servers - E-mail logs – More

several backup methods are available: tarballs, incremental tarballs, mysql databases, svn repositories and even generic methods. Multiple upload methods are also supported: FTP, SSH and RSYNC. Automatic burning of DVD/CDR media is possible and external hook scripts can be defined for customizing the backup process.

In technical terms, it is a network client/server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files.