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 is capable of backing up other types of data, too. Because of its plugin structure, Holland can be used to backup anything you want by whatever means you want.

• Latest Stable Release: 1.0.6 (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
• PostgreSQL backups using pgdump

Planned Features

• Restore Framework

• Drizzle Support

User Documentation

• Reference Documentation:

  • 1.0 (Stable)

  • 1.1 (Development)

• Installing Holland

• Backup Sets Explained

  • mysqldump

  • MySQL + LVM

  • mysqldump + LVM (mylvmdump)

  • Xtrabackup (MySQL)

  • pgdump (PostgreSQL

• Video Tutorials

• Frequently Asked Questions

• License

Developer Information

• Github

• Jenkins (Continue Integration)

• Development Documentation

• Building Usage Documentation

• Holland 1.1 Blueprints

• Test Suite Documentation

• Release Management and Procedures

• Hollandaise 3.0 Slides: Keynote PDF

Mailing Lists

• Core Developers

• Open Discussion

• Build Notifications