Backup Center

The backup center holds all your backups.

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1. Make sure you have the Data Tools Plugin installed
2. Make sure that you have chosen the Active Store. Check on the AppBar
3. Choose the Active Connection/Active Database you want to restore on

• Restore will not create a database
• It does not matter if the backed up database name is different from the one you want to restore to.
• It does not matter if the backed up database was from a different cluster
• All the Scopes and Collections will be restored to your Active Database To refresh our minds, let's look at the Local Store structure for backups

~/Documents/MyRepository
├── Backups
│   ├── travel-sample
│   │   ├── 2023-10-05T09_43_34.506946-07_00
│   │   ├── 22023-10-24T09_48_26.419267-07_00
│   │   ├── 2024-01-20T12_39_35.08943-08_00
│   │   │   ├── **/*.css
│   │   ├── backup-meta.json
│   ├── views
│   ├── model
│   ├── index.js

Backup Center UI

Backup Center Main Panel

This has 3 tables

• Buckets
  • The name of the backed up bucket
• Bucket Details
  • Date: The date of the backup
  • Date: Timestamp of the backup
  • Source: The cluster endpoint where the backup was taken from
    • This is convenient if you have the same bucket name across different clusters
  • Indexes: The number of GSI Indexes in the backup
  • Size: Size of the backup
• Backup Details
  • Details of the backup

Backup Details

Let's take a detailed look at the backup details of jungleville

[
  {
    "name": "_default",
    "mutations": 11,
    "tombstones": 0,
    "collections": [
      {
        "name": "_default",
        "mutations": 0,
        "tombstones": 0
      },
      {
        "name": "users",
        "mutations": 4,
        "tombstones": 0
      },
      {
        "name": "inbox",
        "mutations": 3,
        "tombstones": 0
      },
      {
        "name": "stats",
        "mutations": 4,
        "tombstones": 0
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "25KIMDb",
    "mutations": 7069,
    "tombstones": 0,
    "collections": [
      {
        "name": "movies",
        "mutations": 7069,
        "tombstones": 0
      }
    ]
  }
]

• The source bucket was jungleville
• This had 2 Scopes
  • Scope _default which had 4 Collections
  • Scope 25KIMDb which had 2 Collections
• The mutations are the number of documents
• The tombstones are the number of tombstones. For more details on these, plaese refer Couchbase Documentation