Updated on 2025-09-28 GMT+08:00

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 GeminiDB console.
  2. 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

  3. 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: >!<"&'=

  4. 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 GeminiDB console.
  2. On the Instances page, locate the instance whose backup you want to delete and click its name.
  3. Choose Backups & Restorations in the navigation pane, locate the target backup and click Delete in the Operation column.
  4. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the backup details and click Yes.

Method 2

  1. Log in to the GeminiDB console.
  2. On the Backups page, locate the backup that you want to delete and click Delete.
  3. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the backup details and click Yes.