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Help Center/ TaurusDB/ User Guide/ Data Backups/ Backup Space and Billing

Backup Space and Billing

Updated on 2025-02-12 GMT+08:00

Concepts

  • Full backup: All data is backed up even if no data has changed since the last backup.
  • Incremental backup: The system automatically backs up data that has changed since the last automated backup or incremental backup in binlogs every 5 minutes. The binlogs can be used to restore data to a specified point in time.
  • Differential backup: The system backs up data that has changed since the most recent full backup or differential backup in to physical files. Physical files cannot be used for log replay.
  • Billed space: backup space that you are billed for
  • Logical space: space occupied by full backups
  • Physical space: the amount of data that is backed up to OBS
    NOTE:

    After you purchase a DB instance, the logical space is the same as the physical space. When a backup starts in a backup chain, the physical space stores the data of the first full backup and subsequent differential backups.

Backup Space Calculation Methods

There is a default backup chain (where there are seven backups). The first automated backup is a full backup, and subsequent automated backups are differential backups.

In a backup chain, the backup space is released only after all full backups and differential backups are deleted.

Billed space is calculated as follows:

Billed space = Min(Logical space, Physical space) – Free space = Min(Logical space, Physical space) – Storage space x 100%

  • Logical space: Total size of the logical space – Logical size of the expired backup
  • Physical space: Size of the first full backup + Total size of subsequent differential backups
  • Free space: There is free backup storage up to 100% of your purchased storage space.

Example

A backup chain contains seven backups by default. There are 11 backups shown in the following figure. The 1st backup to the 7th belong to one backup chain and the 8th to the 11th belong to another.

Figure 1 Backup example

If there is 1,000 MB of backup space and the logical space is 1,000 MB each time, the physical space for the 1st backup is 1,000 MB. If the incremental data size is 100 MB each time, the physical space for the 2nd backup to 7th is 100 MB.

A backup chain contains seven backups by default. The physical space for the 8th backup is 1,000 MB because it represents a new backup chain.

Billed space includes the space of the two chains in the example.

Suppose that after the 11th backup was created, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd backups expired and were automatically deleted. The size of each space is calculated as follows:

  • Total logical space size = Total logical space size – Logical size of the expired backup (1,000 MB x 11 - 3,000 MB = 8,000 MB in this example)
  • Physical space: size of data backed up to OBS. In this example, physical space includes the sum of physical space on the two backup links: 1,000 MB + (100 MB x 6) +1,000 MB+ (100 MB X 3) =2,900 MB
  • Total billed space = Min (Total size of logical space, Total size of physical space) – free space, so the total billed space in this example = Min (8,000 MB, 2,900 MB) – 1,000 MB = 1,900 MB

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