New Features in InfluxDB Open Source Backup and Restore

[thefa]

Hi, sorry for reviving this old topic but I was hoping it would help clarifying the context of my question.

I’m trying to do a restore incremental to the target database, which based on the sentence quoted below should be possible and yet I get the “database already exists” error message…

Where do I miss something, please?

Thanks,

The error message :

2019/10/05 20:12:12 error updating meta: DB metadata not changed. database may already exist
restore: DB metadata not changed. database may already exist`

What made me think it should be possible:

@aanthony1243

Restore

The restore function is improved in two important ways. First, the restore process no longer requires system down time. Second, a data restore no longer erases the data currently on the target system. A brief technical explanation is that the old restore process deactivated the system and replaced the data folder with the backup data, while the new online process imports data through a streaming API provided by the influxd program.