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Version: 3.x

Database

Introduction​

Vito provides a simple interface to manage your databases disregards to their type, and you can create databases, users, and link users to databases.

Supported databases​

  • Mysql 5.7
  • Mysql 8.0
  • Mariadb 10.3
  • Mariadb 10.4
  • Mariadb 10.6
  • Mariadb 10.11
  • Mariadb 11.4
  • Postgresql 12
  • Postgresql 13
  • Postgresql 14
  • Postgresql 15
  • Postgresql 16
  • Postgresql 17

Install database service​

To install a database, you can select the database type and version during the server creation.

Vito also allows you to install databases after the server creation in the Services section.

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Every server can have only one database type installed. For example, you can not install both Mysql and Postgresql on the same server.

Uninstall database​

To uninstall a database, you can go to the Services section and Uninstall the database you want to remove.

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Vito won't allow the database service to be uninstalled if there are any databases or users or backups created for that. You will need to delete them first.

Create database​

To create a database, you can go to the Databases section in the server's menu and click on the Create button.

Enter a unique name for the database and select a charset and collation for the database.

The charsets and collations are fetched from the database server when the database service is installed.

Delete database​

To delete a database, you can go to the Databases section in the server's menu and click on the Delete in the database menu. Vito will ask you to confirm the deletion of the database.

Sync databases​

Sometimes you might need to create a database manually on the server, or you might have created a database using the command line.

Vito allows you to sync the databases that are created manually on the server with the Vito's database management system.

To sync the databases, you can go to the Databases section in the server's menu and click on the Sync button.

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Syncing databases will also sync the charsets and collations of the databases again.

Create database user​

To create a database user, you can go to the Database Users section in the server's menu and click on the Create

You can allow a database user to be accessed from outside the server by checking the Allow remote access. Then you will need to provide the IP address or hostname of the remote machine that will access the database.

Users can have the following permissions:

MySQL/MariaDB:

  • READ: SELECT, SHOW VIEW
  • WRITE: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, INDEX, LOCK TABLES, REFERENCES, SHOW VIEW, TRIGGER, CREATE VIEW, EXECUTE (excludes DROP and TRUNCATE)
  • ADMIN: ALL PRIVILEGES

PostgreSQL:

  • READ: CONNECT, USAGE, SELECT on database, schemas, tables, and sequences
  • WRITE: CONNECT, USAGE, CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, REFERENCES, TRIGGER, EXECUTE (excludes DROP and TRUNCATE)
  • ADMIN: ALL PRIVILEGES on database, tables, and sequences

Creating a database and a user is not enough to use the database, You need to link the user to the database.

Vito provides a simple interface to link users to databases. You can simply link a user to multiple databases in the Database Users section.

Sync database users​

Sometimes you might need to create a database user manually on the server, or you might have created a user using the command line.

Vito allows you to sync the database users that are created manually on the server with the Vito's database management system.

Backup​

Vito supports database auto backups. It runs backups for your databases and stores them in the external storages that you provide.

To create a backup you need to connect a storage provider and then create the backup in the Backups section in the Databases menu.

After creating a backup, you can restore the backup files into the same or other databases.

Backups have a retention policy, which means that Vito will automatically delete the old backups based on the retention policy you set.

To set the retention policy, you can set the Backups to keep field when creating a backup. You can edit this later as well.

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Vito will not allow you to create a backup if there are no storage providers connected.

You can also define an interval for the backups to be created automatically. This can be done when creating a backup or by editing the backup later.