# Backup & Restore

- [Backup and Restore Overview](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/backup-and-restore-overview.md): Complete MariaDB backup and recovery guide. Complete resource for backup methods, mariabackup usage, scheduling, and restoration for production use.
- [Forming a Backup Strategy](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/forming-a-backup-strategy.md): Learn how to design a robust backup strategy tailored to your business needs, balancing recovery time objectives and data retention policies.
- [Backup Optimization](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/backup-optimization.md): Discover techniques to optimize your backup processes, including multithreading, incremental backups, and leveraging storage snapshots.
- [MariaDB Enterprise Backup](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-enterprise-backup.md): This page details MariaDB Enterprise Backup, an enhanced version of mariadb-backup with enterprise-specific optimizations and support.
- [mariadb-backup](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup.md): Get an overview of MariaDB Backup. This section introduces the hot physical backup tool, explaining its capabilities for efficient and consistent backups of your MariaDB Server.
- [mariadb-backup Overview](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/mariadb-backup-overview.md): Complete MariaDB backup and recovery guide. Complete resource for backup methods, mariadb-backup usage, scheduling, and restoration for production use.
- [mariadb-backup Options](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/mariadb-backup-options.md): Reference for mariadb-backup (mariabackup) command-line options. Covers --backup, --prepare, --copy-back, --move-back, streaming, and incremental backups.
- [Full Backup and Restore (mariadb-backup)](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/full-backup-and-restore-with-mariadb-backup.md): Complete MariaDB backup and recovery guide. Complete resource for backup methods, mariabackup usage, scheduling, and restoration for production use.
- [Incremental Backup and Restore (mariadb-backup)](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/incremental-backup-and-restore-with-mariadb-backup.md): Complete mariadb-backup incremental guide: --backup/--prepare syntax, LSN xtrabackup\_checkpoints, --incremental-basedir, and --copy-back/--move-back restore.
- [Partial Backup and Restore (mariadb-backup)](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/partial-backup-and-restore-with-mariadb-backup.md): Back up specific databases or tables. This guide explains how to filter your backup to include only the data you need.
- [Restoring Individual Databases From a Full Backup (mariadb-backup)](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/individual-database-restores-with-mariadb-backup-from-full-backup.md): Restore a single database from a full backup. Learn the procedure to extract and recover a specific database schema from a larger backup set.
- [Restoring Individual Tables and Partitions (mariadb-backup)](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/restoring-individual-tables-and-partitions-with-mariadb-backup.md): Restore specific tables from a backup. Learn the process of importing individual .ibd files to recover specific tables without restoring the whole database.
- [Setting up a Replica (mariadb-backup)](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/setting-up-a-replica-with-mariadb-backup.md): Initialize a replication slave using a backup. This guide shows how to use mariadb-backup to provision a new replica from a master server.
- [Files Backed Up by mariadb-backup](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/files-backed-up-by-mariadb-backup.md): List of file types included in a backup. Understand which data files, logs, and configuration files are preserved during the backup process.
- [Files Created by mariadb-backup](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/files-created-by-mariadb-backup.md): Reference of files generated during backup. This page explains the purpose of metadata files like xtrabackup\_checkpoints created by the tool.
- [Using Encryption and Compression Tools With mariadb-backup](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/using-encryption-and-compression-tools-with-mariadb-backup.md): Secure and compress backup streams. Learn to pipe backup output to tools like GPG and GZIP for encryption and storage efficiency.
- [How mariadb-backup Works](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/how-mariadb-backup-works.md): Deep dive into backup mechanics. Understand how the tool handles redo logs, locking, and file copying to ensure consistent backups.
- [mariadb-backup and BACKUP STAGE](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/mariadb-backup/mariadb-backup-and-backup-stage-commands.md): Understand backup locking stages. This page explains how mariadb-backup uses BACKUP STAGE statements to minimize locking during operation.
- [Replication as a Backup Solution](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/replication-as-a-backup-solution.md): Explore how to use replication as part of your backup strategy, allowing you to offload backup tasks to a replica server to reduce load on the primary.
- [Backup and Restore via dbForge Studio](/docs/server/server-usage/backup-and-restore/backup-and-restore-via-dbforge-studio.md): Learn how to use dbForge Studio, a GUI tool, to perform backup and restore operations for MariaDB databases visually.