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How do I backup my FeatureBase Community installation?

You can create FeatureBase backups on the CLI using the featurebase-backup command and suitable flags.

What’s included in the backup?

A featurebase backup includes:

  • schema
  • key translation data
  • indexes
  • Allocated IDs
  • Unaltered records

What’s excluded from the backups

  • External lookup database (backup separately)
  • IDs committed by the auto ID feature before the backup starts
  • Node configurations
  • Other FeatureBase components

Before you begin

  • Obtain Administrator permissions to the FeatureBase cluster

Stop any jobs that create, alter or delete records before running a backup. Only existing, unaltered records are guaranteed to be backed-up.

Syntax

featurebase backup
  {--host
    [ {https://hostname:port --auth-token <token> <tls_flags>}
      | hostname:port
    ]
  [--concurrency <int_val>]
  [--no-sync]
  {[-o|--output] /backup-directory/path/}

Arguments

Backup flags

Argument Description Required? Further information
-no-sync Backup runs without the operating system moving data to persistent storage. Optional Override storage synchronization
-o or -output Backup output directory Yes  
/backup-directory/path/ Backup directory which will be created if it does not exist Yes Backup process will fail if directory not empty

Common Backup/Restore flags

Argument Data type Description Required? Further information
--host   Specify a FeatureBase node Yes  
https://featurebase-hostname-or-ip:port string https is required for authenticated FeatureBase clusters. Requires auth-token For authenticated clusters  
featurebase-hostname-or-ip:port string Primary hostname of the FeatureBase cluster to be backed up. Yes Determine primary host settings
--auth-token <token>   Authorization token required for authentication For authenticated clusters Generate an authentication token
--concurrency <int_val> Integer Define a concurrency value to increase the number of files backed up. Defaults to 1. Optional Not applicable when restoring to new clusters.

TLS authentication flags

Flag Description Required? Further information
--tls.ca-certificate TLS CA certitificate to use for verifying the server certificate (defaults to CA certs installed to system) For TLS authentication  

Additional information

Determine primary host

The primary host is designated by isPrimary:true in the results from the following command:

curl featurebase:10101/status

Override storage synchronization

  • By default, featurebase backup will wait for all backup files to be committed to persistent storage before terminating.
  • no-sync overrides this setting

Use of no-sync risks loss of backup date should the backup system lose power.

Examples

featurebase backup overwrites any files in the destination folder. tar the backup folder then move the file to a new location before performing a backup.

Increased backup speed

Increase backup speed by setting the concurrency value and turning off sync.

featurebase backup
  --concurrency 2
  --host featurebase-hostname-or-ip:10101
  -o /path/to/backup/
  --no-sync

Host backup

featurebase backup
  --host featurebase-hostname-or-ip:10101
  --output /backups/featurebase-backups

Authenticated backup

featurebase backup
  --host https://featurebase-hostname-or-ip:10101
  -o /backups/featurebase-backups
  --auth-token <token>

Backup with TLS

featurebase backup
  --host featurebase-hostname-or-ip:10101
  -o /path/to/backup/
  --tls.ca-certificate ca.crt
  --tls.certificate client.crt
  --tls.key client.key

No sync backup with manual backup to remote folder

featurebase backup --host featurebase-hostname-or-ip:10101 -o /path/to/backup/ --no-sync