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# vmbackup
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`vmbackup` creates VictoriaMetrics data backups from [instant snapshots](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-work-with-snapshots).
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Supported storage systems for backups:
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* [GCS](https://cloud.google.com/storage/). Example: `gcs://<bucket>/<path/to/backup>`
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* [S3](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/). Example: `s3://<bucket>/<path/to/backup>`
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* Any S3-compatible storage such as [MinIO](https://github.com/minio/minio), [Ceph](https://docs.ceph.com/docs/mimic/radosgw/s3/) or [Swift](https://www.swiftstack.com/docs/admin/middleware/s3_middleware.html). See [these docs](#advanced-usage) for details.
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* Local filesystem. Example: `fs://</absolute/path/to/backup>`
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`vmbackup` supports incremental and full backups. Incremental backups created automatically if the destination path already contains data from the previous backup.
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Full backups can be sped up with `-origin` pointing to already existing backup on the same remote storage. In this case `vmbackup` makes server-side copy for the shared
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data between the existing backup and new backup. It saves time and costs on data transfer.
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Backup process can be interrupted at any time. It is automatically resumed from the interruption point when restarting `vmbackup` with the same args.
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Backed up data can be restored with [vmrestore](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmrestore.html).
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See [this article](https://medium.com/@valyala/speeding-up-backups-for-big-time-series-databases-533c1a927883) for more details.
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See also [vmbackupmanager](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/466) tool built on top of `vmbackup`. This tool simplifies
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creation of hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups.
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## Use cases
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### Regular backups
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Regular backup can be performed with the following command:
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```
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vmbackup -storageDataPath=</path/to/victoria-metrics-data> -snapshotName=<local-snapshot> -dst=gcs://<bucket>/<path/to/new/backup>
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```
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* `</path/to/victoria-metrics-data>` - path to VictoriaMetrics data pointed by `-storageDataPath` command-line flag in single-node VictoriaMetrics or in cluster `vmstorage`.
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There is no need to stop VictoriaMetrics for creating backups, since they are performed from immutable [instant snapshots](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-work-with-snapshots).
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* `<local-snapshot>` is the snapshot to back up. See [how to create instant snapshots](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-work-with-snapshots). `vmbackup` can create the snapshot on itself if `-snapshot.createURL` command-line flag is set to an url for creating snapshots. In this case `-snapshotName` flag isn't needed.
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* `<bucket>` is an already existing name for [GCS bucket](https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/creating-buckets).
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* `<path/to/new/backup>` is the destination path where new backup will be placed.
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### Regular backups with server-side copy from existing backup
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If the destination GCS bucket already contains the previous backup at `-origin` path, then new backup can be sped up
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with the following command:
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```
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vmbackup -storageDataPath=</path/to/victoria-metrics-data> -snapshotName=<local-snapshot> -dst=gcs://<bucket>/<path/to/new/backup> -origin=gcs://<bucket>/<path/to/existing/backup>
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```
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It saves time and network bandwidth costs by performing server-side copy for the shared data from the `-origin` to `-dst`.
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### Incremental backups
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Incremental backups performed if `-dst` points to an already existing backup. In this case only new data uploaded to remote storage.
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It saves time and network bandwidth costs when working with big backups:
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```
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vmbackup -storageDataPath=</path/to/victoria-metrics-data> -snapshotName=<local-snapshot> -dst=gcs://<bucket>/<path/to/existing/backup>
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```
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### Smart backups
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Smart backups mean storing full daily backups into `YYYYMMDD` folders and creating incremental hourly backup into `latest` folder:
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* Run the following command every hour:
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```
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vmbackup -snapshotName=<latest-snapshot> -dst=gcs://<bucket>/latest
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```
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Where `<latest-snapshot>` is the latest [snapshot](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-work-with-snapshots).
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The command will upload only changed data to `gcs://<bucket>/latest`.
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* Run the following command once a day:
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```
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vmbackup -snapshotName=<daily-snapshot> -dst=gcs://<bucket>/<YYYYMMDD> -origin=gcs://<bucket>/latest
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```
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Where `<daily-snapshot>` is the snapshot for the last day `<YYYYMMDD>`.
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This apporach saves network bandwidth costs on hourly backups (since they are incremental) and allows recovering data from either the last hour (`latest` backup)
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or from any day (`YYYYMMDD` backups). Note that hourly backup shouldn't run when creating daily backup.
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Do not forget removing old snapshots and backups when they are no longer needed for saving storage costs.
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See also [vmbackupmanager tool](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/466) for automating smart backups.
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## How does it work?
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The backup algorithm is the following:
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1. Collect information about files in the `-snapshotName`, in the `-dst` and in the `-origin`.
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2. Determine files in `-dst`, which are missing in `-snapshotName`, and delete them. These are usually small files, which are already merged into bigger files in the snapshot.
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3. Determine files from `-snapshotName`, which are missing in `-dst`. These are usually small new files and bigger merged files.
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4. Determine files from step 3, which exist in the `-origin`, and perform server-side copy of these files from `-origin` to `-dst`.
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These are usually the biggest and the oldest files, which are shared between backups.
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5. Upload the remaining files from step 3 from `-snapshotName` to `-dst`.
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The algorithm splits source files into 100 MB chunks in the backup. Each chunk stored as a separate file in the backup.
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Such splitting minimizes the amounts of data to re-transfer after temporary errors.
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`vmbackup` relies on [instant snapshot](https://medium.com/@valyala/how-victoriametrics-makes-instant-snapshots-for-multi-terabyte-time-series-data-e1f3fb0e0282) properties:
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- All the files in the snapshot are immutable.
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- Old files periodically merged into new files.
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- Smaller files have higher probability to be merged.
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- Consecutive snapshots share many identical files.
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These properties allow performing fast and cheap incremental backups and server-side copying from `-origin` paths.
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See [this article](https://medium.com/@valyala/speeding-up-backups-for-big-time-series-databases-533c1a927883) for more details.
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`vmbackup` can work improperly or slowly when these properties are violated.
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## Troubleshooting
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* If the backup is slow, then try setting higher value for `-concurrency` flag. This will increase the number of concurrent workers that upload data to backup storage.
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* If `vmbackup` eats all the network bandwidth, then set `-maxBytesPerSecond` to the desired value.
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* If `vmbackup` has been interrupted due to temporary error, then just restart it with the same args. It will resume the backup process.
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* Backups created from [single-node VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html) cannot be restored
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at [cluster VictoriaMetrics](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html) and vice versa.
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## Advanced usage
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* Obtaining credentials from a file.
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Add flag `-credsFilePath=/etc/credentials` with the following content:
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for s3 (aws, minio or other s3 compatible storages):
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```bash
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[default]
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aws_access_key_id=theaccesskey
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aws_secret_access_key=thesecretaccesskeyvalue
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```
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for gce cloud storage:
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```json
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{
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"type": "service_account",
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"project_id": "project-id",
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"private_key_id": "key-id",
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"private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nprivate-key\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
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"client_email": "service-account-email",
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"client_id": "client-id",
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"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
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"token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
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"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
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"client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/service-account-email"
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}
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```
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* Usage with s3 custom url endpoint. It is possible to use `vmbackup` with s3 compatible storages like minio, cloudian, etc.
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You have to add a custom url endpoint via flag:
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```
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# for minio
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-customS3Endpoint=http://localhost:9000
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# for aws gov region
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-customS3Endpoint=https://s3-fips.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com
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```
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* Run `vmbackup -help` in order to see all the available options:
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```
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-concurrency int
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The number of concurrent workers. Higher concurrency may reduce backup duration (default 10)
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-configFilePath string
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Path to file with S3 configs. Configs are loaded from default location if not set.
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See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-security-credentials.html
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-configProfile string
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Profile name for S3 configs. If no set, the value of the environment variable will be loaded (AWS_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE), or if both not set, DefaultSharedConfigProfile is used
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-credsFilePath string
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Path to file with GCS or S3 credentials. Credentials are loaded from default locations if not set.
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See https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-security-credentials.html
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-customS3Endpoint string
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Custom S3 endpoint for use with S3-compatible storages (e.g. MinIO). S3 is used if not set
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-dst string
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Where to put the backup on the remote storage. Example: gcs://bucket/path/to/backup/dir, s3://bucket/path/to/backup/dir or fs:///path/to/local/backup/dir
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-dst can point to the previous backup. In this case incremental backup is performed, i.e. only changed data is uploaded
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-envflag.enable
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Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set
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-envflag.prefix string
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Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
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-fs.disableMmap
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Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
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-loggerDisableTimestamps
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Whether to disable writing timestamps in logs
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-loggerErrorsPerSecondLimit int
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Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
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-loggerFormat string
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Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
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-loggerLevel string
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Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
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-loggerOutput string
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Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
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-loggerTimezone string
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Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
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-loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit int
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Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero values disable the rate limit
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-maxBytesPerSecond size
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The maximum upload speed. There is no limit if it is set to 0
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Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
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-memory.allowedBytes size
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Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to a non-zero value. Too low a value may increase the cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache resulting in higher disk IO usage
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Supports the following optional suffixes for size values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
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-memory.allowedPercent float
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Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low a value may increase cache miss rate usually resulting in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high a value may evict too much data from OS page cache which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
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-origin string
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Optional origin directory on the remote storage with old backup for server-side copying when performing full backup. This speeds up full backups
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-snapshot.createURL string
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VictoriaMetrics create snapshot url. When this is given a snapshot will automatically be created during backup. Example: http://victoriametrics:8428/snapshot/create . There is no need in setting -snapshotName if -snapshot.createURL is set
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-snapshot.deleteURL string
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VictoriaMetrics delete snapshot url. Optional. Will be generated from -snapshot.createURL if not provided. All created snapshots will be automatically deleted. Example: http://victoriametrics:8428/snapshot/delete
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-snapshotName string
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Name for the snapshot to backup. See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#how-to-work-with-snapshots. There is no need in setting -snapshotName if -snapshot.createURL is set
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-storageDataPath string
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Path to VictoriaMetrics data. Must match -storageDataPath from VictoriaMetrics or vmstorage (default "victoria-metrics-data")
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-version
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Show VictoriaMetrics version
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```
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## How to build from sources
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It is recommended using [binary releases](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases) - see `vmutils-*` archives there.
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### Development build
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1. [Install Go](https://golang.org/doc/install). The minimum supported version is Go 1.15.
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2. Run `make vmbackup` from the root folder of [the repository](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
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It builds `vmbackup` binary and puts it into the `bin` folder.
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### Production build
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1. [Install docker](https://docs.docker.com/install/).
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2. Run `make vmbackup-prod` from the root folder of [the repository](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics).
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It builds `vmbackup-prod` binary and puts it into the `bin` folder.
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### Building docker images
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Run `make package-vmbackup`. It builds `victoriametrics/vmbackup:<PKG_TAG>` docker image locally.
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`<PKG_TAG>` is auto-generated image tag, which depends on source code in the repository.
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The `<PKG_TAG>` may be manually set via `PKG_TAG=foobar make package-vmbackup`.
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The base docker image is [alpine](https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine) but it is possible to use any other base image
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by setting it via `<ROOT_IMAGE>` environment variable. For example, the following command builds the image on top of [scratch](https://hub.docker.com/_/scratch) image:
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```bash
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ROOT_IMAGE=scratch make package-vmbackup
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```
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