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Functions and features

Updated at: 2025-02-17 09:57

Basic backup

Database Backup (DBS) provides basic database backup capabilities to help meet your requirements for automation and recoverability.

Category

Feature

Description

References

Backup and restoration

Full backup

DBS supports full data backups for databases.

Log backup

DBS supports incremental log backup for databases.

Backup policies

DBS allows you to configure a backup policy and specify the information such as the backup type, backup time, and backup set retention rules.

Monitoring and alerting

DBS supports monitoring and alerting for backup and restoration tasks.

Manage alert rules

Data restoration from a specific backup set

DBS allows you to restore data from a specific backup set at a scheduled point in time.

Data restoration to a specific point in time

DBS allows you to restore data to a specific point in time by using full backup sets and log backup sets.

Storage

Warm backup storage

DBS provides a storage service with moderate performance and cost.

Built-in storage and OSS

Backup data cleanup

DBS supports automatic and manual deletion of backup data after the time to live (TTL) period expires.

Binary log cleanup

DBS allows you to delete the binary log files of a database.

Manage binary log files

Value-added backup

DBS provides enterprise-level and cloud-native backup capabilities to help meet your requirements for service level agreement (SLA) guarantees, higher efficiency, and lower costs.

Category

Feature

Description

References

Backup and restoration

API integration

DBS provides API operations for integration.

DBS API

Backup throttling based on I/O bandwidth

DBS allows you to change the maximum backup speed by limiting the network bandwidth of a backup schedule.

How do I change the maximum backup speed?

Non-intrusive and lock-free backup

DBS allows you to back up data in non-intrusive streaming backup mode, without locking the source database.

Benefits

Streaming backup

In this backup mode, backup data is directly uploaded to the backup storage and is not stored in the on-premises database.

Storage fees

Cross-region backup

DBS allows you to back up a database across regions. This feature can be used in scenarios such as governance and disaster recovery.

Retaining backup files for an extended period of time

DBS allows you to retain backup files for an extended period of time. This helps you restore your data and protect your data assets.

Retain backup files for a long period of time

Recovery drill

DBS allows you to perform disaster recovery drills to rehearse a database restore on a regular basis. You can use this feature to verify the correctness of the backup data.

Perform disaster recovery drills

Encrypted backup

DBS uses encryption to ensure security during the transmission and storage of backup data.

Benefits

Backup across Alibaba Cloud accounts

DBS allows you to back up a database across Alibaba Cloud accounts. This feature can be used in scenarios such as data migration and cross-account data sharing.

Back up and restore data across Alibaba Cloud accounts

ActionTrail

ActionTrail monitors and records the operations that are performed on backup and restoration tasks within your Alibaba Cloud account.

Notice on the integration of the DBS API with ActionTrail

Restoration of individual databases and tables

You can use DBS to restore individual databases and tables of a database instance without the need to restore the entire database instance.

Incremental backup

DBS provides the incremental data backup feature to back up only the data that has changed. This saves backup time and reduces the storage space of backup data. This feature can be used in scenarios such as scheduled backup and disaster recovery.

Sparse backup

This feature allows you to back up data on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis and retain the minimum number of backup sets. This helps reduce the amount of time required to restore data from backup sets and the storage costs of backup sets.

N/A

Centralized management of multiple databases

DBS allows you to manage and back up the data of multiple databases in a centralized manner.

Database engines and features

Third-party integration and compatibility

DBS supports integration and compatibility with third-party database services.

Database engines and features

Sandbox instance

DBS provides the sandbox feature based on copy data management (CDM). You can use this feature to create a sandbox instance and restore data to the sandbox instance. This allows backup data to be available in a short period of time.

Overview

Cloud disaster recovery

DBS provides the cloud disaster recovery feature for self-managed databases to restore data to ApsaraDB databases. This feature can be used in scenarios such as data backup to the cloud, cloud disaster recovery, disaster recovery drills, development and testing, and queries and analysis.

Restore a self-managed MySQL database in an emergency

High-frequency backup

You can configure high-frequency backup at an interval of several minutes or hours.

Fast database and table restoration

You can use this feature to quickly restore individual databases and tables of a database instance. Compared with regular restoration of databases and tables, fast restoration is expected to improve the restoration speed by 50% to 95%.

Storage

Storage tiering

Hot data, warm data, and cold data are separated from each other for tiered storage. This helps manage backup data in an intelligent and flexible manner, and ensures the speed, availability, and cost-effectiveness of backup.

General compression

DBS allows you to enable compression during a backup. This reduces storage space.

Modify the backup time and advanced settings

Data capabilities

Backup download

DBS allows you to download backup data. This feature can be used in scenarios such as long-term backup retention, backup query, backup migration, and audit.

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