Data is the lifeblood of your applications, and a single mishap, whether it’s a hardware failure, data corruption, accidental deletion, or a cyberattack, can lead to catastrophic losses. That’s why a robust, reliable backup and recovery strategy is essential for business continuity. Without it, you risk not only losing valuable information but also facing extended downtime, compliance breaches, and loss of customer trust. 

Meet SkySQL Backup Service

While automated backups are integral to your SkySQL databases, the Backup Service brings the full power and flexibility of advanced backups at your fingertips. With a self-service interface and a comprehensive API, you can tailor your backup strategy to fit your exact needs.

What Makes SkySQL Backup Service Stand Out?

A Range of Backup Types

With the SkySQL Backup service, you are not locked into a single approach. Mix and match backup types to suit your workload, compliance needs, and recovery objectives.

• Full Backups: Capture your entire database at a single point in time for a complete safety net.

• Incremental Backups: Only store changes since your last backup, saving time and storage while ensuring you’re always up to date.

• Logical Dumps: Export your data as SQL statements, perfect for migrations or granular restores.

• Binary Log Backups: Track every change for precise point-in-time recovery.

• Cloud Snapshots: Create instant, consistent, point-in-time copies of your database and configuration, stored securely in the cloud.

Continuous Backups Using Self-Service Scheduling

SkySQL makes it easy to protect your data on your terms. Need a backup before a big change? Trigger a one-time backup instantly. Want backups every 30 minutes? Or 1am every night? Set up custom schedules using cron expressions.

Bring Your Own Bucket for Ultimate Control

Your data, your rules. SkySQL automatically stores backups in secure, managed cloud storage, but you can also back up to your own object storage within your cloud account. This means you always have a copy of your data, ready to restore wherever and whenever you need it.

Security and Reliability

All backups are encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is restricted exclusively to your organization. SkySQL automatically retries and reschedules backups in the event of failures, ensuring your data is always protected.

Easy to Use and Cost-Efficient

Manage everything through the SkySQL portal or automate your workflows with the Backup Service API. Create, monitor, and restore backups with just a few clicks or API calls. It’s as simple or as advanced as you need it to be.

Using the Backup service to create one-time backups is completely free. You pay a monthly fee of $20 for the ability to schedule backups. You also get up to 100% of your provisioned storage included for backup storage. Anything extra gets charged at $0.08 / GB-month. We compress the backups significantly, so you can get more out of your allocated included storage.

Central to High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Here’s where things get really powerful: Backup service isn’t just about recovering from accidental data loss. It’s central to building higher availability architectures. Setting up disaster recovery or blue-green deployments is dependent on having reliable, restorable backups. With SkySQL, you can easily replicate your database across regions or clouds, restore to a specific point in time, or spin up a new environment from a recent backup. This flexibility is key for minimizing downtime, enabling seamless migrations, and ensuring your business stays online no matter what.

Ready to Safeguard Your Data?

Backup Service gives you the power, flexibility, and confidence you need to protect your most valuable asset - your data. Whether you’re planning for disaster recovery, enabling blue-green deployments, or just making sure you have a local copy of your data, Backup Service has you covered. 

Ready to give it a try? If you’re new to SkySQL, get started by creating a free serverless account at app.skysql.com. For existing customers, log in to SkySQL and set up your automated scheduled backups today.