List Backups

This article explains how to list all existing backups for a given database.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this procedure.

For Exasol 8 2025.1.0 and later, you can use Exasol Admin for this procedure. For earlier versions, you must use ConfD.

Procedure - Exasol Admin

This page lists all backups on archive volumes associated with the databases in the cluster.You can shoose to show all backups on a selected archive volume, or only the backups for a specific database. The backups that can be used to restore the currently selected database are indicated with a green checkmark.

Procedure - ConfD

This procedure uses the command-line tool confd_client, which is available on all database nodes. For more information, see ConfD.

Placeholder values are indicated with UPPERCASE characters. Replace the placeholders with your own values.

Connect to the cluster operating system (COS) using c4 connect -i PLAY_ID -s cos.

Example:
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```
./c4 connect -i c3275f84 -s cos
```
For more information about how to use c4 connect, see How to use c4.
To find the database name when you are connected to COS, use the ConfD job db_list.

Example:
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```
confd_client db_list
- MY_DATABASE
```

To get information about all backups for the current database, use the ConfD job db_backup_list. For example:

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confd_client db_backup_list db_name: MY_DATABASE

- bid: 1
  comment: ''
  dependencies: '-'
  expire: 2024-06-20 12:08
  expire_alterable: 10001 MY_DATABASE/id_1/level_0
  expired: false
  id: 10001 MY_DATABASE/id_1/level_0/node_0/backup_202406131208 MY_DATABASE
  last_item: true
  level: 0
  path: MY_DATABASE/id_1/level_0/node_0/backup_202406131208
  system: MY_DATABASE
  timestamp: 2024-06-13 12:08
  ts: '202406131208'
  usable: true
  usage: 0.011 GiB
  volume: r0001

List foreign databases

If the backup was taken from another database than the one you are currently connected to, it is said to have been taken on a foreign database. To list backups that were taken on foreign databases as well as backups taken on the current database, use the ConfD job db_backup_list with the show_foreign parameter set to True.