How do I backup and Restore FeatureBase Community Databases?
FeatureBase Community databases can be backed-up and restored for a number of reasons, including the following:
- General backup and restore of a FeatureBase database
- Resizing a FeatureBase cluster
- Making changes to your
featurebase.confsettings, including the clusterpartition-to-node-assignmentparameter.
Table of contents
Before you begin
How do I backup a FeatureBase database?
How do I verify backups?
Use the following checklist to verify backups function correctly.
| Task | Description |
|---|---|
| Backup source | Backup a FeatureBase cluster |
| Set up test environment | Backup testing can be performed using a single local node provided the system has sufficient memory and disk space. |
| Restore source backup to test environment | Restore a FeatureBase cluster |
| Test target | Run queries and verify results are as expected |
How do I restore a FeatureBase database?
How do I migrate a FeatureBase cluster?
When you choose to migrate data from one cluster to another, the destination cluster resources (HD size, memory and processor cores) can be:
- identical to the source cluster
- larger than the source cluster
Clusters cannot be migrated to systems with less resources than the source.