I currently have an Azure PostgreSQL server which I would like to permanently delete.
For obvious reasons I would like to make a snapshot/soft delete before turning off and deleting. What is the simplest way to accomplish this? I know there is a backup center option but I feel this is rather sophisticated for what I need.
Thanks
You can take the backup of Azure PostgreSQL server on the Azure Storage Account, then download the backup file locally from the storage account. After that you can delete the storage account and Azure PostgreSQL server.
Below is the article that shows how to take back up on Blob Storage.
Backup Azure Database for PostgreSQL to a Blob Storage
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We are trying to devise a backup strategy for Azure Flexible Server. Can we use the native pgdumpall as a backup and restore mechanism, I am able to take a dumpall by excluding azure default database (as we are not super user in managed server)
pg_dumpall - Azure Database for PostgreSQL - permission denied for database "azure_maintenance"
Can we restore the dump that we create somehow in the managed postgres flexible server, I am unable to find any support in this regard.
You should be able to restore the dump to Flexible server. See if any of these docs help however for the link you shared Yes, we do not allow dump all as some of the internal DBs are not exposed to customers due to security.
Upgrade using dump and restore - Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Microsoft Docs
Dump and restore - Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server | Microsoft Docs
I'm working on trying to setup my local database with some mock data to work with. We have a development AWS account with a postgres database. I would like to create a backup of it, export it to my local computer, and restore to my local postgres database.
I've been trying to find how to do this online, but everything I'm finding is on how to backup to AWS and to restore back to AWS. I tried creating a snapshot and exporting it via S3 - but the snapshot doesn't produce a sql file to restore from like I was expecting.
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would very much appreciate it :)
I am afraid that the only chance you have is pg_dump/pg_restore.
Even if Amazon lets you get your hands on its file system backups, which I doubt, they may be of little use to you, since Amazon runs modified versions of PostgreSQL and you cannot be sure that the physical file format is identical to PostgreSQL.
I have a C# ASP.NET MVC based web application in which there is a functionality of Archiving (backup) and Restoring Databases on the click of button. Currently, our system is On-Prem and so we are using the stored procedures in SQL Server to do the backup and restore.
Now we are migrating to Azure PaaS and are using Elastic Pool. As the backup and restore T-SQL commands do not work in Azure SQL, so can someone please help me in finding a way to do the backup and restore of DBs manually through T-SQL?
Any help would be highly appreciated!
Auto backups is a feature of Azure SQL database.
In SQL Azure, database backups are executed automatically and it is not possible to change this behavior. This is a service offered when you create a SQL Azure database and the first full backup occurs immediately after you create a new SQL Azure database and the rest of the backups are scheduled by SQL Azure itself.
There is no way can help you backup and restore of DBs manually through T-SQL.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the quick answer,Leon! :)
So that it could be helpful to other community members, I would like to mention another way to achieve the same as it can't be done by T-SQL.
What I have done instead is, I have used SQLPackage.exe utility embedded in a batch script and executed that batch script through my C# code to achieve the same functionality.
I able to migrate from on-prem database to AWS using DMS service but couldn't able to migrate database from Azure to AWS.
Is there any better approach?
A pretty low level but effective way would be to: export your Azure data as CSV using pg_dump,
copy it into an AWS S3 bucket (pretty easy with Python awscli package) and load from S3 into RDS Postgres.
Would be great if files could be moved directly from blob storage to s3, but I don't think Azure Postgres supports dumping directly to blob anyway.
I tried taking backup of dashdb from bluemix cloud using Data Studio. I am getting this error 'Remote target is unreachable.'.
Since this is an admin activity, I assume it should be done on the server. As this is cloud server, I am trying to understand how this can be done!
Are there any tools which support ssh to the server and how to take backup of the db? Any documentation in this regard?
Thanks
Which plan are you using ?
Have you read the details of backup on the FAQ ?
This section might help:
Is my data backed up? Encrypted backups on the full Db2 managed service database are done daily. For the Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex Performance plan, the
last 7 daily backups are retained. For all other Db2 Warehouse on
Cloud plans, the last 2 daily backups are retained. For Db2 on Cloud,
the last 14 daily backups are retained. In the Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Flex Performance plan, you can restore your database from any of your retained backups at any time
that you choose. In the case of all of the other Db2 Warehouse on
Cloud plans, the retained backups are used exclusively by IBM for only
system recovery purposes in the event of a disaster or system loss. A
request to restore your database from a backup is not supported. You
can export your data using Db2 tools such as IBM Data Studio or by
using the db2 export command.>
For Db2 on Cloud, backups can be stored off site in a different data center or region upon request to IBM Support. These backups are
also used exclusively by IBM to recover from only disaster or system
loss events. A request to restore your database from a backup is not
supported.
Are there any tools which support ssh to the server and how to take backup of the db? Any documentation in this regard?
SSH is not supported as this is a managed service. This is documented in the FAQ:
How do I access the Db2 managed service database?
You can access your Db2 managed service database through the web console from a browser, or you can connect to the database with a client connection such as JDBC, ODBC, CLI, CLP, or CLPPlus. A direct login to the server with Telnet or a Secure Shell (ssh) is not supported.
If you want to take your own backups at the interval of your choice, exporting your data is your best option. That can be done from the web console or from a database client.
Alternatively, if what you're after is access to historical data, you can use time travel query.