March 22, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Disk-based backup solution developer Righteous Software (r1soft.com) announced on Wednesday it will release an add-on module in May to enable its line of data protection software to near-continuously backup online MySQL databases running on Linux-based servers.

With the announcement, R1Soft says it will become the first to offer a near-continuous data protection product for MySQL databases, which generally store transaction-based data that changes frequently.

"Legacy backup solutions, such as tape backup or rsync, require server administrators to conduct data back ups at large intervals, such as nightly or weekly. With MySQL databases, the problem is exemplified, because database administrators often have to perform full dumps of the database while it is offline to avoid interrupting constant SQL transactions," says David Wartell, R1Soft founder and CEO. "We have solved this problem by introducing the first-ever backup solution that provides hands-off, near-continuous data protection for MySQL."

The module, available as a premium add-on to the company's existing CDP server for Linux, creates frequent disaster recovery restore points for MySQL databases, with the ability to store over 100 recovery points per day. Each recovery point is a complete and consistent point-in-time snapshot of the database,and administrators can revert the database to any stored recovery point via a simple, point-and-click interface, says the company.

R1soft also recently announced that its line of continuous data protection solutions now support implementation on servers powered by Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions.