Arangobackup

Introduced in: v3.5.1

Arangobackup is only available in theEnterprise Edition.Use arangodump andarangorestore forlogical backups in the Community Edition.

Arangobackup is a command-line client tool for instantaneous andconsistent hot backups of the data andstructures stored in ArangoDB.

Hot backups rely on hard link magic performed on the database’spersistence layer.

Arangobackup can be used for all ArangoDB deployment modes(Single Instance, Active Failover, Cluster). It always creates whatis most readily described as a persistence layer consistent snapshotof the entire instance. Therefore, no such thing as database orcollection level hot backup exists. Consequently, unlike witharangodump/arangorestore, one may only restore a hot backup set tothe same layout, for example one can only restore a single server hot backup to a single server instance and a 3 DBServer cluster’s hot backup to a 3DBServer instance.

Snapshots can be uploaded to or downloaded from remote repositories.

Please review therequirements and limitationsof hot backups, specifically regarding storage engine, deployment, scopeand storage space.