IBM Cloud Backup vs. Percona XtraBackup

The outstanding storage capacity, organized security measures, and appropriate business features of IBM Cloud Backup make it something I'd recommend at any time of day or night. Furthermore, the software is online and hence easily accessible from a distance. The application's stability and strength are further assurances that all authorized business users are in safe hands.

Incentivized

Well suited to databases < 10TB. For larger than this, I would go with snapshots.

• The software is very secure.
• It is scalable which is a plus for business.
• Restoring data is easy and fast.
• Recovery process is easy.
• I would say that IBM Cloud Backup is user friendly.

Incentivized

• Non-blocking backup : Backup process will not put any lock on the database.
• Fast recovery : As it's a file level backup so it's quite fast in both backup and recovery.
• Consistent backup : Xtrabackup always ensures consistent backup.
• Easy to configure and Use.
• Integration with clouds

• The set prices for the product is a problem.
• Secondly, IBM Cloud Backup customer help should be more speedy.
• IBM Cloud Backup is so automated, and in case of a power failure, accessing some of this data can be challenging.

Incentivized

• The only feature that could use some improvement is partial backup restores. For example, I have a multi-tenant database at the schema level running on a single Percona Server instance. As a tenant grows too large for the share instance or becomes a noisy neighbour we need to move a the tenants schema to its own instance with minimal downtime, meaning that we would run the new instance as a replica with replication filters until failover. In terms of doing a consistent backup, there may be challenges and it is currently possible with XtraBackup, but it would be great if the process was simplified and ensured to be consistent.

Takes a bit of getting used to when you first set it up.

Incentivized

If you pay for support it is great, otherwise you have to google.

Incentivized

Pricing and how easy it is to use. We use other IBM products in our office and it is nice to have everything on one network. The experience for users and managers is better, even new employees who can learn quickly. It also makes it more affordable for us.

Incentivized

We have evaluated Mysqldump and MySQL Enterprise backup. Mysqldump is not a scalable solution. MEB is a paid and closed source. As we are truly open-source, we were looking for an open-source solution that was reliable and scalable. Xtrbackup has all the required features to fulfill our requirements.

• The fact that it can be scaled up is beneficial to company.
• The program being on the cloud also makes it more accessible online.
• The program has a high level of protection.

Incentivized

• Secure, reliable, fast and consistent backups. Open source with zero cost.
• We satisfy our regulatory requirements.