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The backup commands allow you to: create and update a backup (ad-hoc or scheduled), list the contents of a backup, and list the backups of a cluster. You cannot initiate a backup without a cluster. Make sure you add a cluster (cluster add) before initiating a backup.
This command allows you to schedule or run ad-hoc cluster backup.
sctool backup --cluster <id|name> --location [<dc>:]<provider>:<bucket> [--keyspace <glob>] [flags]
-c, --cluster¶The target cluster name or ID (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_CLUSTER).
--cron¶Task schedule as a cron expression. It supports the extended syntax including @monthly, @weekly, @daily, @midnight, @hourly, @every X[h|m|s].
--dc¶A list of datacenter glob patterns separated by a comma, e.g. ‘dc1,!otherdc*’ used to specify the datacenters to include or exclude. The following syntax for glob patterns is supported:
‘*’ - matches any number of any characters including none
‘?’ - matches any single character
‘[abc]’ - matches one character given in the bracket
‘[a-z]’ - matches one character from the range given in the bracket
Patterns are evaluated from left to right. If a pattern starts with ‘!’ it unselects items that were selected by previous patterns i.e. ‘a?,!aa’ selects ab but not aa.
Default value: []
--dry-run¶Validates and prints backup information without actually scheduling a backup.
Default value: false
--enabled¶Not enabled tasks are not executed and are hidden from the task list.
Default value: true
-h, --help¶help for backup
Default value: false
-i, --interval¶–interval is deprecated, please use –cron instead
Time after which a successfully completed task would be run again. The supported units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘ms’ - milliseconds
The task run date is aligned with ‘–start date’ value. For example, if you select ‘–interval 7d’ task would run weekly at the ‘–start-date’ time.
-K, --keyspace¶A list of glob patterns separated by a comma used to include or exclude tables. The patterns match keyspaces and tables, separate the keyspace name from the table name with a dot e.g. ‘keyspace,!keyspace.table_prefix_*’. The following syntax for glob patterns is supported:
‘*’ - matches any number of any characters including none
‘?’ - matches any single character
‘[abc]’ - matches one character given in the bracket
‘[a-z]’ - matches one character from the range given in the bracket
Patterns are evaluated from left to right. If a pattern starts with ‘!’ it unselects items that were selected by previous patterns i.e. ‘a?,!aa’ selects ab but not aa.
Default value: []
-L, --location¶A list of backup locations separated by a comma, specifies where to place the backup, the format is [<dc>:]<provider>:<bucket>. The ‘<dc>’ parameter is optional it allows to specify location for a datacenter in a multi-dc setting, it must match Scylla nodes datacenter. The supported storage ‘<provider>’s are ‘azure’, ‘gcs’, ‘s3’. The ‘name’ parameter is a bucket name, it must be an alphanumeric string and may contain a dash and or a dot, but other characters are forbidden.
Default value: []
--name¶Task name that can be used insead of ID.
-r, --num-retries¶Number of times a task reruns following a failure.
Default value: 3
--purge-only¶Run the backup cleanup only.
Default value: false
--rate-limit¶Limits the upload rate (as expressed in megabytes (MiB) per second) at which snapshotfiles can be uploaded from a Scylla node to its backup destination. You can set limits for more than one DC using a comma-separated list expressed in the format [<dc>:]<limit>. The <dc>: part is optional and is only needed when different datacenters require different upload limits. Set to 0 for no limit (default 100).
Default value: []
--retention¶The number of backups to store, once this number is reached, the next backup which comes in from this destination will initiate a purge of the oldest backup. Can be used simultaneously with ‘–retention-days’ flag.
Default value: 7
--retention-days¶The number of days for which backup is stored, the next backup will initiate a purge of all expired backups. Can be used simultaneously with ‘–retention’ flag.
Default value: 0
--retry-wait¶Initial exponential backoff duration X[h|m|s]. With –retry-wait 10m task will wait 10 minutes, 20 minutes and 40 minutes after first, second and third consecutire failure.
Default value: 10m
--show-tables¶Prints table names together with keyspace, used in combination with –dry-run.
Default value: false
--snapshot-parallel¶A comma-separated list of snapshot parallelism limits in the format [<dc>:]<limit>. The ‘dc’ part is optional and allows for specifying different limits in selected datacenters. If the ‘dc’ part is not set, the limit is global and the runs are parallel in ‘n’ nodes. If for example, you were to set ‘dc1:2,5’, then ‘dc1’ would have two parallel nodes and there would be five parallel nodes in the other DCs.
Default value: []
-s, --start-date¶–start-date is deprecated, please use –cron instead
The date can be expressed relatively to now or as a RFC3339 formatted string. To run the task in 2 hours use ‘now+2h’. The supported units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘ms’ - milliseconds
If you want the task to start at a specified date use RFC3339 formatted string i.e. ‘2018-01-02T15:04:05-07:00’. If you want the repair to start immediately, use the value ‘now’ or skip this flag.
--timezone¶Timezone of –cron and –window flag values. The default value is taken from this system, namely ‘TZ’ envvar or ‘/etc/localtime’ file.
Default value: UTC
--upload-parallel¶A comma-separated list of upload parallelism limits in the format [<dc>:]<limit>. The ‘dc’ part is optional and allows for specifying different limits in selected datacenters. If the ‘dc’ part is not set, the limit is global (e.g. ‘dc1:2,5’) the runs are parallel in ‘n’ nodes. If for example, you were to set ‘dc1:2,5’, then ‘dc1’ would have two parallel nodes and there would be five parallel nodes in the other DCs.
Default value: []
--window¶A comma-separated list of time markers in a form [WEEKDAY-]HH:MM. WEEKDAY can be written as the whole word or only using the first 3 characters, HH:MM is an hour from 00:00 to 23:59.
‘MON-00:00,FRI-15:00’ - can be executed from Monday to Friday 3PM
‘23:00,06:00’ - can be executed every night from 11PM to 6AM
‘23:00,06:00,SAT-00:00,SUN-23:59’ - can be executed every night from 11PM to 6AM and all day during the weekend
Default value: []
--api-cert-file
File path to HTTPS client certificate used to access the Scylla Manager server when client certificate validation is enabled (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_CERT_FILE).
--api-key-file
File path to HTTPS client key associated with –api-cert-file flag (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_KEY_FILE).
--api-url
Base URL of Scylla Manager server (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_URL).
If running sctool on the same machine as server, it’s generated based on ‘/etc/scylla-manager/scylla-manager.yaml’ file.
Default value: http://127.0.0.1:5080/api/v1
This command schedules a backup validation task.
It checks that all needed files are in tact, and that there are no unexpected files occupying your storage.
To delete the unexpected files provide the --delete-orphaned-files parameter.
To see the validation results use progress command.
It is safe to run backup and backup validation at the same time.
sctool backup validate --cluster <id|name> [--delete-orphaned-files] [flags]
-c, --cluster¶The target cluster name or ID (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_CLUSTER).
--cron¶Task schedule as a cron expression. It supports the extended syntax including @monthly, @weekly, @daily, @midnight, @hourly, @every X[h|m|s].
--delete-orphaned-files¶If set data files not belonging to any snapshot will be deleted after the validation.
Default value: false
--enabled¶Not enabled tasks are not executed and are hidden from the task list.
Default value: true
-h, --help¶help for validate
Default value: false
-i, --interval¶–interval is deprecated, please use –cron instead
Time after which a successfully completed task would be run again. The supported units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘ms’ - milliseconds
The task run date is aligned with ‘–start date’ value. For example, if you select ‘–interval 7d’ task would run weekly at the ‘–start-date’ time.
-L, --location¶A list of backup locations separated by a comma, specifies where to place the backup, the format is [<dc>:]<provider>:<bucket>. The ‘<dc>’ parameter is optional it allows to specify location for a datacenter in a multi-dc setting, it must match Scylla nodes datacenter. The supported storage ‘<provider>’s are ‘azure’, ‘gcs’, ‘s3’. The ‘name’ parameter is a bucket name, it must be an alphanumeric string and may contain a dash and or a dot, but other characters are forbidden.
Default value: []
--name¶Task name that can be used insead of ID.
-r, --num-retries¶Number of times a task reruns following a failure.
Default value: 3
--parallel¶Number of hosts to analyze in parallel.
Default value: 0
--retry-wait¶Initial exponential backoff duration X[h|m|s]. With –retry-wait 10m task will wait 10 minutes, 20 minutes and 40 minutes after first, second and third consecutire failure.
Default value: 10m
-s, --start-date¶–start-date is deprecated, please use –cron instead
The date can be expressed relatively to now or as a RFC3339 formatted string. To run the task in 2 hours use ‘now+2h’. The supported units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘ms’ - milliseconds
If you want the task to start at a specified date use RFC3339 formatted string i.e. ‘2018-01-02T15:04:05-07:00’. If you want the repair to start immediately, use the value ‘now’ or skip this flag.
--timezone¶Timezone of –cron and –window flag values. The default value is taken from this system, namely ‘TZ’ envvar or ‘/etc/localtime’ file.
Default value: UTC
--window¶A comma-separated list of time markers in a form [WEEKDAY-]HH:MM. WEEKDAY can be written as the whole word or only using the first 3 characters, HH:MM is an hour from 00:00 to 23:59.
‘MON-00:00,FRI-15:00’ - can be executed from Monday to Friday 3PM
‘23:00,06:00’ - can be executed every night from 11PM to 6AM
‘23:00,06:00,SAT-00:00,SUN-23:59’ - can be executed every night from 11PM to 6AM and all day during the weekend
Default value: []
--api-cert-file
File path to HTTPS client certificate used to access the Scylla Manager server when client certificate validation is enabled (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_CERT_FILE).
--api-key-file
File path to HTTPS client key associated with –api-cert-file flag (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_KEY_FILE).
--api-url
Base URL of Scylla Manager server (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_URL).
If running sctool on the same machine as server, it’s generated based on ‘/etc/scylla-manager/scylla-manager.yaml’ file.
Default value: http://127.0.0.1:5080/api/v1
This command allows you to modify properties of an already existing backup task. If there is one backup task the ‘backup/<id|name>’ argument is not needed.
sctool backup update --cluster <id|name> [flags] [backup/<id|name>]
-c, --cluster¶The target cluster name or ID (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_CLUSTER).
--cron¶Task schedule as a cron expression. It supports the extended syntax including @monthly, @weekly, @daily, @midnight, @hourly, @every X[h|m|s].
--dc¶A list of datacenter glob patterns separated by a comma, e.g. ‘dc1,!otherdc*’ used to specify the datacenters to include or exclude. The following syntax for glob patterns is supported:
‘*’ - matches any number of any characters including none
‘?’ - matches any single character
‘[abc]’ - matches one character given in the bracket
‘[a-z]’ - matches one character from the range given in the bracket
Patterns are evaluated from left to right. If a pattern starts with ‘!’ it unselects items that were selected by previous patterns i.e. ‘a?,!aa’ selects ab but not aa.
Default value: []
--dry-run¶Validates and prints backup information without actually scheduling a backup.
Default value: false
--enabled¶Not enabled tasks are not executed and are hidden from the task list.
Default value: true
-h, --help¶help for update
Default value: false
-i, --interval¶–interval is deprecated, please use –cron instead
Time after which a successfully completed task would be run again. The supported units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘ms’ - milliseconds
The task run date is aligned with ‘–start date’ value. For example, if you select ‘–interval 7d’ task would run weekly at the ‘–start-date’ time.
-K, --keyspace¶A list of glob patterns separated by a comma used to include or exclude tables. The patterns match keyspaces and tables, separate the keyspace name from the table name with a dot e.g. ‘keyspace,!keyspace.table_prefix_*’. The following syntax for glob patterns is supported:
‘*’ - matches any number of any characters including none
‘?’ - matches any single character
‘[abc]’ - matches one character given in the bracket
‘[a-z]’ - matches one character from the range given in the bracket
Patterns are evaluated from left to right. If a pattern starts with ‘!’ it unselects items that were selected by previous patterns i.e. ‘a?,!aa’ selects ab but not aa.
Default value: []
-L, --location¶A list of backup locations separated by a comma, specifies where to place the backup, the format is [<dc>:]<provider>:<bucket>. The ‘<dc>’ parameter is optional it allows to specify location for a datacenter in a multi-dc setting, it must match Scylla nodes datacenter. The supported storage ‘<provider>’s are ‘azure’, ‘gcs’, ‘s3’. The ‘name’ parameter is a bucket name, it must be an alphanumeric string and may contain a dash and or a dot, but other characters are forbidden.
Default value: []
--name¶Task name that can be used insead of ID.
-r, --num-retries¶Number of times a task reruns following a failure.
Default value: 3
--purge-only¶Run the backup cleanup only.
Default value: false
--rate-limit¶Limits the upload rate (as expressed in megabytes (MiB) per second) at which snapshotfiles can be uploaded from a Scylla node to its backup destination. You can set limits for more than one DC using a comma-separated list expressed in the format [<dc>:]<limit>. The <dc>: part is optional and is only needed when different datacenters require different upload limits. Set to 0 for no limit (default 100).
Default value: []
--retention¶The number of backups to store, once this number is reached, the next backup which comes in from this destination will initiate a purge of the oldest backup. Can be used simultaneously with ‘–retention-days’ flag.
Default value: 7
--retention-days¶The number of days for which backup is stored, the next backup will initiate a purge of all expired backups. Can be used simultaneously with ‘–retention’ flag.
Default value: 0
--retry-wait¶Initial exponential backoff duration X[h|m|s]. With –retry-wait 10m task will wait 10 minutes, 20 minutes and 40 minutes after first, second and third consecutire failure.
Default value: 10m
--show-tables¶Prints table names together with keyspace, used in combination with –dry-run.
Default value: false
--snapshot-parallel¶A comma-separated list of snapshot parallelism limits in the format [<dc>:]<limit>. The ‘dc’ part is optional and allows for specifying different limits in selected datacenters. If the ‘dc’ part is not set, the limit is global and the runs are parallel in ‘n’ nodes. If for example, you were to set ‘dc1:2,5’, then ‘dc1’ would have two parallel nodes and there would be five parallel nodes in the other DCs.
Default value: []
-s, --start-date¶–start-date is deprecated, please use –cron instead
The date can be expressed relatively to now or as a RFC3339 formatted string. To run the task in 2 hours use ‘now+2h’. The supported units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘ms’ - milliseconds
If you want the task to start at a specified date use RFC3339 formatted string i.e. ‘2018-01-02T15:04:05-07:00’. If you want the repair to start immediately, use the value ‘now’ or skip this flag.
--timezone¶Timezone of –cron and –window flag values. The default value is taken from this system, namely ‘TZ’ envvar or ‘/etc/localtime’ file.
Default value: UTC
--upload-parallel¶A comma-separated list of upload parallelism limits in the format [<dc>:]<limit>. The ‘dc’ part is optional and allows for specifying different limits in selected datacenters. If the ‘dc’ part is not set, the limit is global (e.g. ‘dc1:2,5’) the runs are parallel in ‘n’ nodes. If for example, you were to set ‘dc1:2,5’, then ‘dc1’ would have two parallel nodes and there would be five parallel nodes in the other DCs.
Default value: []
--window¶A comma-separated list of time markers in a form [WEEKDAY-]HH:MM. WEEKDAY can be written as the whole word or only using the first 3 characters, HH:MM is an hour from 00:00 to 23:59.
‘MON-00:00,FRI-15:00’ - can be executed from Monday to Friday 3PM
‘23:00,06:00’ - can be executed every night from 11PM to 6AM
‘23:00,06:00,SAT-00:00,SUN-23:59’ - can be executed every night from 11PM to 6AM and all day during the weekend
Default value: []
--api-cert-file
File path to HTTPS client certificate used to access the Scylla Manager server when client certificate validation is enabled (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_CERT_FILE).
--api-key-file
File path to HTTPS client key associated with –api-cert-file flag (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_KEY_FILE).
--api-url
Base URL of Scylla Manager server (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_URL).
If running sctool on the same machine as server, it’s generated based on ‘/etc/scylla-manager/scylla-manager.yaml’ file.
Default value: http://127.0.0.1:5080/api/v1
This commands allow you to list backups.
sctool backup list --cluster <id|name> [flags]
--all-clusters¶Shows backups for all clusters. Useful for listing clusters that are no longer available locally but are backed up in the past to remote location.
Default value: false
-c, --cluster¶The target cluster name or ID (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_CLUSTER).
-h, --help¶help for list
Default value: false
-K, --keyspace¶A list of glob patterns separated by a comma used to include or exclude tables. The patterns match keyspaces and tables, separate the keyspace name from the table name with a dot e.g. ‘keyspace,!keyspace.table_prefix_*’. The following syntax for glob patterns is supported:
‘*’ - matches any number of any characters including none
‘?’ - matches any single character
‘[abc]’ - matches one character given in the bracket
‘[a-z]’ - matches one character from the range given in the bracket
Patterns are evaluated from left to right. If a pattern starts with ‘!’ it unselects items that were selected by previous patterns i.e. ‘a?,!aa’ selects ab but not aa.
Default value: []
-L, --location¶A list of backup locations separated by a comma, specifies where to place the backup, the format is [<dc>:]<provider>:<bucket>. The ‘<dc>’ parameter is optional it allows to specify location for a datacenter in a multi-dc setting, it must match Scylla nodes datacenter. The supported storage ‘<provider>’s are ‘azure’, ‘gcs’, ‘s3’. The ‘name’ parameter is a bucket name, it must be an alphanumeric string and may contain a dash and or a dot, but other characters are forbidden.
Default value: []
--max-date¶Specifies maximal snapshot date expressed in RFC3339 form or ‘now[+duration]’, ex. ‘now+3d2h10m’. Valid units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘now’ - happens immediately
--min-date¶Specifies minimal snapshot date expressed in RFC3339 form or ‘now[+duration]’, ex. ‘now+3d2h10m’. Valid units are:
‘d’ - days
‘h’ - hours
‘m’ - minutes
‘s’ - seconds
‘now’ - happens immediately
--show-tables¶Prints table names together with keyspace.
Default value: false
--api-cert-file
File path to HTTPS client certificate used to access the Scylla Manager server when client certificate validation is enabled (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_CERT_FILE).
--api-key-file
File path to HTTPS client key associated with –api-cert-file flag (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_KEY_FILE).
--api-url
Base URL of Scylla Manager server (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_URL).
If running sctool on the same machine as server, it’s generated based on ‘/etc/scylla-manager/scylla-manager.yaml’ file.
Default value: http://127.0.0.1:5080/api/v1
This command allows you to delete files that were uploaded during backup procedure. Deduplicated files are persisted unless their reference count drops to zero.
sctool backup delete --cluster <id|name> --snapshot-tag <tag> [flags]
-c, --cluster¶The target cluster name or ID (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_CLUSTER).
-h, --help¶help for delete
Default value: false
-L, --location¶A list of backup locations separated by a comma, specifies where to place the backup, the format is [<dc>:]<provider>:<bucket>. The ‘<dc>’ parameter is optional it allows to specify location for a datacenter in a multi-dc setting, it must match Scylla nodes datacenter. The supported storage ‘<provider>’s are ‘azure’, ‘gcs’, ‘s3’. The ‘name’ parameter is a bucket name, it must be an alphanumeric string and may contain a dash and or a dot, but other characters are forbidden.
Default value: []
-T, --snapshot-tag¶A list of snapshot tags sparated by a comma.
Default value: []
--api-cert-file
File path to HTTPS client certificate used to access the Scylla Manager server when client certificate validation is enabled (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_CERT_FILE).
--api-key-file
File path to HTTPS client key associated with –api-cert-file flag (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_KEY_FILE).
--api-url
Base URL of Scylla Manager server (envvar SCYLLA_MANAGER_API_URL).
If running sctool on the same machine as server, it’s generated based on ‘/etc/scylla-manager/scylla-manager.yaml’ file.
Default value: http://127.0.0.1:5080/api/v1
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