Category
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Feature
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Description
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References
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Backup and restoration
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API integration
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DBS provides API operations for integration.
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DBS API
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Backup throttling based on I/O bandwidth
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DBS allows you to change the maximum backup speed by limiting the network bandwidth of a backup schedule.
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How do I change the maximum backup speed?
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Non-intrusive and lock-free backup
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DBS allows you to back up data in non-intrusive streaming backup mode, without locking the source database.
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Benefits
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Streaming backup
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In this backup mode, backup data is directly uploaded to the backup storage and is not stored in the on-premises database.
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Storage fees
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Cross-region backup
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DBS allows you to back up a database across regions. This feature can be used in scenarios such as governance and disaster recovery.
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Retaining backup files for an extended period of time
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DBS allows you to retain backup files for an extended period of time. This helps you restore your data and protect your data assets.
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Retain backup files for a long period of time
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Recovery drill
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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.
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Perform disaster recovery drills
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Encrypted backup
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DBS uses encryption to ensure security during the transmission and storage of backup data.
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Benefits
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Backup across Alibaba Cloud accounts
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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.
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Back up and restore data across Alibaba Cloud accounts
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ActionTrail
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ActionTrail monitors and records the operations that are performed on backup and restoration tasks within your Alibaba Cloud account.
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Notice on the integration of the DBS API with ActionTrail
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Restoration of individual databases and tables
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You can use DBS to restore individual databases and tables of a database instance without the need to restore the entire database instance.
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Incremental backup
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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.
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Sparse backup
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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.
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N/A
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Centralized management of multiple databases
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DBS allows you to manage and back up the data of multiple databases in a centralized manner.
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Database engines and features
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Third-party integration and compatibility
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DBS supports integration and compatibility with third-party database services.
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Database engines and features
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Sandbox instance
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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.
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Overview
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Cloud disaster recovery
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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.
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Restore a self-managed MySQL database in an emergency
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High-frequency backup
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You can configure high-frequency backup at an interval of several minutes or hours.
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Fast database and table restoration
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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%.
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Storage
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Storage tiering
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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.
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General compression
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DBS allows you to enable compression during a backup. This reduces storage space.
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Modify the backup time and advanced settings
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Data capabilities
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Backup download
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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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