Holland Backup Framework

Holland is an Open Source backup framework originally developed at Rackspace and written in Python. Its goal is to help facilitate backing up databases with greater configurability, consistency, and ease. Holland currently focuses on MySQL, however future development will include other database platforms and even non-database related applications. Because of its plugin structure, Holland can be used to backup anything you want by whatever means you want.

• Latest Stable Release: 1.0.2 (Source, RPMs, DEBs)

• Current Nightly Snapshot Release: holland-snapshot

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Notable Features

• Pluggable Framework

• Supports Multiple Backup Sets

• Database and Table Filtering (Using GLOBs)

• Auto-Detection of Transactional DBs

  • safe use of --single-transaction with mysqldump

• In-Line and Pluggable Compression
• Backups Suitable for Point-In-Time Recovery / Replication
• MySQL + LVM Snapshot and Logical Backups

Planned Features

• Restore Framework

• Postgres Support

• Drizzle Support

User Documentation

• Installing Holland

• Backup Sets Explained

  • mysqldump

  • MySQL + LVM

  • mysqldump + LVM (mylvmdump)

• Video Tutorials

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Reference Documentation: PDF HTML (Online)

• License

Developer Information

• Github

• Hudson

• Development Documentation

• Building Usage Documentation

• Holland 1.1 Blueprints

• Test Suite Documentation

• Release Management and Procedures

• Hollandaise 3.0 Slides: Keynote PDF

Mailing Lists

• Development

• Announcements

• Hudson Build System Notifications (failures/recoveries)