Automated Database Backups

Database Backups in MIDAS: Protecting Your Booking Data

Booking data has real operational and financial value. Losing it - whether through hardware failure, accidental deletion, or any other reason - can be seriously disruptive. MIDAS approaches data protection with multiple layers, not a single point of reliance.

Automatic daily backups

MIDAS creates a full database backup automatically every day, triggered on the first login. This runs silently in the background with no performance impact. Backups are retained for a configurable period before being automatically removed, keeping storage use predictable.

On-demand backups

Administrator accounts can trigger a backup at any time - before a major configuration change, before importing data, or simply for peace of mind. This takes seconds and doesn't interrupt anyone else using the system.

Email delivery of backups

Backups can be sent by email as well as stored on the server. This creates an off-server copy automatically, without needing to configure separate backup software or external storage.

Cloud-hosted: additional disaster recovery

For cloud-hosted MIDAS systems, we maintain additional off-site backups stored in geographically separate data centres. This means that even in the event of a hosting infrastructure failure, your data is preserved. An optional Emergency Access addon provides a real-time standby copy of your system running on a separate server, available if the primary system is unreachable.

Restoring from a backup

If you need to restore data, MIDAS provides a selective restore tool. You can restore specific elements of a backup without overwriting everything, which is useful if a single record was accidentally deleted rather than the entire database needing to be rolled back.

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