Backup and recovery
Backups protect against data loss by letting you restore data.
YDB provides multiple solutions for backup and recovery:
- Backing up data to files and restoring it using the YDB CLI.
- Backing up data to S3-compatible storage and restoring it using the YDB CLI.
YDB CLI
Files
To back up data to a file, run the ydb tools dump
command. To learn more about this command, follow the link to the YDB CLI reference.
To restore data from a backup, run the ydb tools restore
command. To learn more about this command, follow the link to the YDB CLI reference.
S3-compatible storage
To back up data to S3-compatible storage (such as AWS S3), run the ydb export s3
command. To learn more about this command, follow the link to the YDB CLI reference.
To restore data from a backup created in S3-compatible storage, run the ydb import s3
command. To learn more about this command, follow the link to the YDB CLI reference.