Back up and restore universes

You can use YugabyteDB to schedule and manage backups of your universe data. This includes the following features:

• On-demand backup and restore.
• Scheduled backups. Schedule backups at regular intervals, along with retention periods.
• Incremental backups. Create a schedule to take full backups periodically and incremental backups between those full backups.
• Configurable performance parameters. Tune parallelization and buffers for faster backup and restore performance. In most cases, this results in 5x or more speed improvements in backups and restores.
• Point-in-time recovery. Recover universe data from a specific point in time.
• Flexible storage. Store backups in the cloud or in your data center.
• Disaster recovery. Failover to an asynchronously replicated universe in case of unplanned outages.

{{< note title="Note" >}} Configurable performance parameters and incremental backups are mediated using the yb-controller process, which is only available in YBA 2.16 or later for universes with YugabyteDB version 2.16 or later. {{< /note >}}

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{{<index/item title="Restore universe data" body="Restore from full and incremental backups." href="restore-universe-data/" icon="/images/section_icons/manage/backup.png">}}

{{<index/item title="Perform point-in-time recovery" body="Recover universe data from a specific point in time." href="pitr/" icon="/images/section_icons/manage/pitr.png">}}

{{<index/item title="Disaster recovery" body="Fail over to a backup universe in case of unplanned outages." href="disaster-recovery/" icon="/images/section_icons/manage/pitr.png">}}

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