create-backup

Description

Create full or split partitions backup for one or more databases to a specified repository.

This command runs BACKUP DATABASE on the Master Aggregator with automatically configured options based on the specified backup repository.

All of the sdb-admin backup-related commands take the --repository option which is a concise pointer to a location storing all of the backups. The format used in this flag is based on the URL spec and has the following components:

{protocol}://{path}[?{options}]

The protocol determines which options are supported and how the path is interpreted. Supported protocols are: file, s3, and azure.

Split backup can be created only if all nodes in the cluster run SingleStore 7.1.0 or later.

Examples

sdb-admin create-backup --repository "s3://foo/bar?region=eu-central-1" database_1 database_2
sdb-admin create-backup database_1 -r azure://foo/bar database_2
sdb-admin create-backup -r file:///nfs db1
sdb-admin create-backup -r "s3://foo/bar?region=eu-central-1" database_1
sdb-admin create-backup -r "s3://foo/bar?region=eu-central-1" database_1 --backup-type split

Create initial incremental backup database_1_week_1:

sdb-admin create-backup -r "s3://foo/bar?region=eu-central-1" database_1 --backup-type init --backup-suffix week_1

Create differential backup database_1_week_1:

sdb-admin create-backup -r "s3://foo/bar?region=eu-central-1" database_1 --backup-type differential --backup-suffix week_1

Create a backup with tags:

sdb-admin create-backup database_1 -r file:///tmp/foo.backup --tags production,no-prune

Usage

Usage:
sdb-admin create-backup DATABASE_NAME... [flags]
For flags that can accept multiple values (indicated by VALUES after the name of the flag),
separate each value with a comma.
Flags:
--backup-suffix string Suffix of incremental backup names. The suffix identifies each logical incremental backup and should be the same for the initial and the differential versions of an incremental backup
--backup-type {full, split, init, differential} Type of the backup (default full)
-h, --help Help for create-backup
--include GLOB Backup all databases matching GLOB (e.g. "*", "foo*", "*bar")
--no-region Do not use region-specific endpoints for S3-compatible repositories
-r, --repository STRING Path to the repository in the URL format. See https://docs.singlestore.com/toolbox-redir/memsql-backup-repository for examples
--tags strings Comma-separated list of tags to add to the backup
--timeout duration Maximum time to wait for backup to be created (e.g., 30s, 10m, 1.5h); defaults to 24 hours (default 24h0m0s)
Global Flags:
--backup-cache FILE_PATH File path for the backup cache
--cache-file FILE_PATH File path for the Toolbox node cache
-c, --config FILE_PATH File path for the Toolbox configuration
--disable-colors Disable color output in console, which some terminal sessions/environments may have difficulty with
--disable-spinner Disable the progress spinner, which some terminal sessions/environments may have issues with
-j, --json Enable JSON output
--parallelism POSITIVE_INTEGER Maximum number of operations to run in parallel
--runtime-dir DIRECTORY_PATH Where to store Toolbox runtime data
--ssh-control-persist SECONDS Enable SSH ControlPersist and set it to the specified duration in seconds
--ssh-max-sessions POSITIVE_INTEGER Maximum number of SSH sessions to open per host, must be at least 3
--ssh-strict-host-key-checking Enable strict host key checking for SSH connections
--ssh-user-known-hosts-file FILE_PATH Path to the user known_hosts file for SSH connections. If not set, /dev/null will be used
--state-file FILE_PATH Toolbox state file path
-v, --verbosity count Increase logging verbosity: valid values are 1, 2, 3. Usage -v=count or --verbosity=count
-y, --yes Enable non-interactive mode and assume the user would like to move forward with the proposed actions by default

Remarks

This command is interactive unless you use either --yes or --json flag to override interactive behavior.

Last modified: October 6, 2023

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