Incremental backups through the CLI since 2.0

InfluxDB 2
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I noticed that the influxDB lacks the ability to do incremental backups for 2.0+ - that is, there is no way to set a range from which backups occur any longer. I Have a use case where I’m using an Influxdb database as an in-flight store (think data logger for a remote application) where the data must be transported off for warehousing once the unit returns from the field. I was planning on using the backup to transfer data during this time and have a mounted drive where these backups occur with some periodicity.

The problem is that without incremental backups, this method will not work effectively without recording redundancy.

Aside from a bespoke backup from the data itself, are there any in-built ways to achieve this?

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I am facing similar issue where the data size is > 2TB. The backups are taking longer everytime with increase in data. Incremental data backups are much needed in 2.0.

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Hi
Is there any plans to add this functionality?

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Hi,

any news on this Topic? Would also be needed by me for the same reasons…

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I’m having the same problem too.
Incremental backup is very important

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Our database is currently over 22TB and growing fast. Any solution (or work-around) for incremental backups would be greatly appreciated!

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Hello @twim,
The best think I can imagine is to create a bash script that does this using the influxdb cli.
There isn’t an out of the box solution for incremental backups though :frowning: sigh

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Hello @Anaisdg,

Thank you for your suggestion and sorry for the incredibly late reply! I think we’ll just end up relying on snapshots of the block device containing the InfluxDB data and taking incremental backups of that :slight_smile:

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There’s not even this option for the CLI. Each time the command influx backup run, it will do full backup. It takes longer the more we add data to it.