Prove the Backup: A Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Restore Drill on Windows

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A backup is only useful if it can be restored. This lab seeds a source database, takes a logical archive, deliberately deletes the source database, restores into a clean target, and checks the recovered state. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL does not provide a native Windows package. Windows is only the Docker Desktop host; PostgreSQL and its utilities run in Linux containers.

The current Percona 17 Docker documentation uses percona/percona-distribution-postgresql:17.11, requires POSTGRES_PASSWORD, and exposes PostgreSQL on container port 5432. Docker Desktop is the recommended way to obtain Docker Engine, the CLI, and Compose on Windows. Percona Docker guide · Docker Compose installation

Backups for MySQL With mysqldump

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Basic Usage

mysqldump is a client utility that can be used for doing logical backups. It will generate the necessary SQL statements to reproduce the original database.

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The following statements are some common uses of mysqldump:

mysqldump -u username -p database_name [table_name] > dump.sql
mysqldump -u username -p --databases db1_name db2_name > dump.sql
mysqldump -u username -p --all-databases > dump.sql

The first example is for backing up a single database. If you need to back up some specific tables instead of the whole database, write their names, space-separated.

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Backups for MySQL With mysqldump

Basic Usage