The official Docker mariadb image will run all *.sh and *.sql scripts in its /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d directory automatically when it starts. Table of contents: 1. Create an init.sql 2. Run an init script for Docker MariaDB 3. Access the MariaDB running container 4. References Technologies used: Docker 24.0.5 Official Docker mariadb image (latest tag) 1. Create […]

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In the terminal, we can type mariadb -V (uppercase V) to display the current MariaDB version installed on the server. Terminal $ mariadb -V mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.5.19-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper The above output show MariaDB version 10.5.19 is installed on the server. Server System Variables Alternatively, we can connect to […]

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This article shows a shell script to backup or export a MySQL / MariaDB database, gzip the exported file, and upload the gzipped backup file to Amazon S3. Table of contents 1. Install AWS CLI 2. Backup MySQL/MariaDB database to S3 (Shell Script) 3. How to run the backup script? 4. Run the backup script […]

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