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Managing Manual Backups

To ensure data reliability, GaussDB(for Cassandra) allows you to manually back up DB instances whose status is Available. If a database or table is deleted, maliciously or accidentally, backups can help recover your data.

• By default, you can create up to 50 backups.
• Manual backups are full backups.

Creating a Manual Backup

1. Log in to the GaussDB NoSQL console.
2. Create a manual backup.

   Method 1

   On the Instance Management page, locate the DB instance you wish to back up and click Create Backup or More > Create Backup in the Operation column.

   Method 2

   1. On the Instance Management page, click the DB instance you wish to back up.
   2. On the Backups & Restorations page, click Create Backup.

   Method 3

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

3. In the displayed dialog box, enter the backup name and description, and click OK.

   Table 1 Parameter description

   Parameter	Description
   DB Instance Name	The default value is the name of the DB instance to be backed up and cannot be modified.
   Backup Name	The backup name must be 4 to 64 characters in length and start with a letter. Backup names are case-insensitive and can only contain letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
   Description	The description contains a maximum of 256 characters and cannot include line breaks or the following special characters: >!<"&'=

4. View the backup status after the task has been executed.
   • During the creation of a manual backup, you can query the backup status on the Backup Management page or the Backups & Restorations page. The backup status is Backing up.
   • If a manual backup was successfully created, the backup status is Completed.

Deleting a Manual Backup

If you do not need the manual backup, you can delete it on the Backup Management page or the Backups & Restorations page.

Deleted backups are not displayed in the backup list.

The deletion operation is irreversible, so exercise caution when performing this operation.

Method 1

1. On the Instance Management page, click the DB instance whose backup you wish to delete.
2. On the Backups & Restorations page, locate the backup you wish to delete and click Delete.
3. In the Delete Backup dialog box, confirm the backup details and click Yes.

Method 2

1. On the Backup Management page, locate the target backup and click Delete.
2. In the Delete Backup dialog box, confirm the backup details and click Yes.

Parent topic: Backups and Restorations