Backup / Export#

Purpose#

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#

  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.