Backup / Export
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Purpose
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As good practice, a customer should run a backup on a regular basis.

.. note::

   To carry out these tasks on a multinode unified node topology
   or on a modular cluster topology, log in on the database node with
   the second highest weight.

Procedure
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1. Create a localbackup with:
  
   **backup create localbackup**
2. Add a remote location for the export with:
  
   **backup add <remotename> sftp://<sftpusername>:<sftppassword>@<IP address>**

3. Export the local backup with:
  
   **backup export localbackup <remotename> <timestamp>**
  
   (``<timestamp>`` seen with the **backup list** command)
4. Ensure that the backup gets run regularly, using the **schedule** commands.

For more details and examples on backup and restore, refer to the Backup and Import topic in the Platform Guide.