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Caution
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Even though ScyllaDB is a fault-tolerant system, it is recommended to regularly back up the data to external storage.
Backup is a per-node procedure. Make sure to back up each node in your cluster. For cluster-wide backup and restore, see ScyllaDB Manager.
Backup works the same for non-encrypted and encrypted SStables. You can use Encryption at Rest available in ScyllaDB Enterprise without affecting the backup procedure.
You can choose one of the following:
Full Backup - Copy the entire data of a node.
Incremental Backup - Updates (delta) - flushed SSTables.
Snapshots are taken using nodetool snapshot. First, the command flushes the MemTables from memory to SSTables on disk, and afterward, it creates a hard link for each SSTable in each keyspace. With time, SSTables are compacted, but the hard link keeps a copy of each file. This takes up an increasing amount of disk space. It is important to clear space by clean unnecessary snapshots.
Procedure
$: cqlsh -e "DESC SCHEMA WITH INTERNALS" > <schema_name.cql>
For example:
$: cqlsh -e "DESC SCHEMA WITH INTERNALS" > db_schema.cql
Warning
To get a proper schema description, you need to use cqlsh at least in version 6.0.19
. Restoring a schema backup created by
an older version of cqlsh may lead to data resurrection or data loss. To check the version of your cqlsh, you can use cqlsh --version
.
$ nodetool snapshot <KEYSPACE_NAME>
$ nodetool snapshot mykeyspace
/var/lib/scylla/data
keyspace_name/table_name-UUID/snapshots/snapshot_name
/mykeyspace/team_roster-91cd2060f99d11e6a47a000000000000/snapshots/1487847672222
From one of the nodes, recreate the schema. Repeat these steps for each node in the cluster.
A snapshot
All incremental backups and commit logs from the time of the snapshot.
Make sure to delete unnecessary incremental backups. ScyllaDB does not do this automatically.
Procedure
/etc/scylla/scylla.yaml
file set the incremental backups
parameters to true
and restart the ScyllaDB service. Snapshot are created under ScyllaDB data directory /var/lib/scylla/data
keyspace_name/table_name-UUID/backups/backups_name
/mykeyspace/team_roster-91cd2060f99d11e6a47a000000000000/backups/1437827672721
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