Backup and Restore

How do backups work in vitess?

Backup and Restore are integrated features provided by tablets managed by Vitess. Vitess uses backups for provisioning new tablets in an existing shard. Vitess supports plugins for a number of Backup Storage Services and Backup Engines. The supported ...more

What is XtraBackup and how does Vitess use it?

Percona XtraBackup is an open source backup utility for MySQL. You can delve into Percona’s documentation on XtraBackup. XtraBackup can be used as a backup engine in Vitess. Using it requires configuration using command-line flags. ...more

What are my options to restore in vitess?

When a tablet starts, Vitess checks the value of the --restore_from_backup command-line flag to determine whether to restore a backup to that tablet. If the flag is present, Vitess tries to restore the most recent backup from the Backup Storage system ...more