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Back up and restore universes

Use YugabyteDB Anywhere to back up and restore YugabyteDB universes and data

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You can use YugabyteDB to schedule and manage backups of your universe data. This includes the following features:

  • On-demand backup and restore.
  • Scheduled backups. Schedule backups at regular intervals, along with retention periods. Optionally enable restore to a point in time.
  • Incremental backups. Create a schedule to take full backups periodically and incremental backups between those full backups.
  • Rewind to a point in time. Rewind universe data to a specific point in time.
  • Flexible storage. Store backups in the cloud or in your data center.
  • Disaster recovery. Failover to an asynchronously replicated universe in case of unplanned outages.
  • Configurable performance parameters. Tune parallelization and buffers for faster backup and restore performance. In most cases, this results in 5x or more speed improvements in backups and restores.

Starting with YugabyteDB v2025.2.1, taking YSQL backups during DDLs is supported by default.

Best practices

  • Don't perform cluster operations at the same time as your scheduled backup.
  • Configure your maintenance window and backup schedule so that they do not conflict.
  • Perform full backups before performing a large operation, such as a DDL change.
  • Performing a backup or restore incurs a load on the cluster. Perform backup operations when the cluster isn't experiencing heavy traffic. Backing up during times of heavy traffic can temporarily degrade application performance and increase the length of time of the backup.
  • Avoid running a backup during or before a scheduled maintenance.
Configure backup storage
Configure the storage location for your backups.
Schedule universe data backups
Create backup schedules and enable point-in-time recovery for backups.
Back up universe data
Back up universes and create incremental backups.
Restore universe data
Restore from full and incremental backups, and to a point in time.
Rewind to a point in time
Rewind universe data to a specific point in time.
Disaster recovery
Fail over to a backup universe in case of unplanned outages.