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Sudarshan Kadambi
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Sudarshan has a background in Distributed systems and Database design. He has been a user and contributor to various NoSQL databases and is passionate about solving large-scale data management challenges.
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Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.
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InfluxDB operations


In this section, we will discuss some InfluxDB operations, such as how to back up and restore data, what is the RP, how to monitor InfluxDB, clustering, and HA.

Backup and restore

It is critical to backup your data and recover them in case problem occurs, such as system crashes and hardware failures. InfluxDB provides a variety of backup and restore strategies.

Backups

Backup is a must in every production database. There are two types of backups in InfluxDB: metastore and database.

Metastore contains system information. You can back up a metastore instance by running the following command:

influxd backup <path-to-backup>

When backing up databases, each database needs to be backed up separately by running the following command:

influxd backup -database <mydatabase> <path-to-backup>

You can specify some arguments for retention, shard, and since as follows:

-retention <retention policy name> -shard <shard ID> -since <date>

If we change the <path...

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Sudarshan Kadambi

Sudarshan has a background in Distributed systems and Database design. He has been a user and contributor to various NoSQL databases and is passionate about solving large-scale data management challenges.
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Xun (Brian) Wu

Xun (Brian) Wu is a senior blockchain architect and consultant. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across various technologies, including Blockchain, big data, cloud, AI, systems, and infrastructure, Brian has worked on more than 50 projects in his career. He has authored nine books, which have been published by O'Reilly, Packt, and Apress, focusing on popular fields within the Blockchain industry. The titles of his books include: Learn Ethereum (First Edition), Learn Ethereum (Second Edition), Blockchain for Teens, Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Hyperledger Fabric V2, Hyperledger Cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide, Blockchain by Example, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week.
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