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Managing Manual Backups

GeminiDB Redis API allows you to manually back up instances whose status is Available to protect your data. If a database or table is deleted, maliciously or accidentally, backups can help recover your data. Manual backups are full backups.

Usage Notes

  • Manual backups are charged for instances with cloud native storage during OBT.

Creating a Manual Backup

  1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
  2. In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
  3. Create a manual backup.

    Method 1

    On the Instances page, locate the instance you want to back up and choose More > Create Backup in the Operation column.

    Figure 1 Creating a manual backup

    Method 2
    1. On the Instances page, click the instance you want to back up.
    2. Choose Backups & Restorations in the navigation pane on the left, and click Create Backup.
      Figure 2 Creating a manual backup

    Method 3

    In the navigation pane on the left, choose Backups. On the displayed page, click Create Backup.

    Figure 3 Creating a manual backup

  4. In the displayed dialog box, specify a backup name and description and click OK.

    Table 1 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Description

    DB Instance Name

    Must be the name of the DB instance to be backed up and cannot be modified.

    Backup Name

    Must be 4 to 64 characters long and start with a letter. It is case-insensitive and contains only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

    Description

    Can include a maximum of 256 characters and cannot contain line breaks and the following special characters: >!<"&'=

  5. View the backup status.

    • When the backup is being created, query the backup status on the Backups or Backups & Restorations page. The backup status is Backing up.
    • After the backup is created, the backup status changes to Completed.

Deleting a Manual Backup

If you no longer need a manual backup, delete it on the Backups or Backups & Restorations page.

Deleted backups are not displayed in the backup list.

Deleted backups cannot be restored.

Method 1
  1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
  2. In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
  3. On the Instances page, locate the instance whose backup you want to delete and click its name.
  4. Choose Backups & Restorations in the navigation pane, locate the target backup and click Delete in the Operation column.
  5. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the backup details and click Yes.

Method 2

  1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud console.
  2. In the service list, choose Databases > GeminiDB.
  3. On the Backups page, locate the backup that you want to delete and click Delete.
  4. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the backup details and click Yes.
Parent Topic: Data Backup