etcd 3.7

How to save the database

Official etcd 3.7 guides for developers, operators, upgrades, APIs, and internals.

Pre-requisites

Snapshot a database

snapshot to save point-in-time snapshot of etcd database:

etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINT snapshot save DB_NAME

Global Options

etcdctl

--endpoints=[127.0.0.1:2379], gRPC endpoints

Snapshot can only be requested from one etcd node, so --endpoints flag should contain only one endpoint.

etcdutl

-w, --write-out string   set the output format (fields, json, protobuf, simple, table) (default "simple")

Example

ENDPOINTS=$HOST_1:2379
etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS snapshot save my.db

Snapshot saved at my.db

etcdutl --write-out=table snapshot status my.db

+---------+----------+------------+------------+
|  HASH   | REVISION | TOTAL KEYS | TOTAL SIZE |
+---------+----------+------------+------------+
| c55e8b8 |        9 |         13 | 25 kB      |
+---------+----------+------------+------------+

Source and license

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