{"id":2282,"date":"2016-05-31T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:12:34","slug":"enterprise-grade-backup-and-restore-tool-in-couchbase-server-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/enterprise-grade-backup-and-restore-tool-in-couchbase-server-4-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Grade Backup and Restore Tool in Couchbase Server 4.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The enterprise grade backup and restore tool, cbbackupmgr, provides a high performance, consistent, reliable and secure solution for backing up and restoring business critical data for enterprise customers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Backing up Exponential Data Growth at Speed<\/span><\/h2>\n

Exponential data growth, the need for more frequent data protection, and a variety of other challenges requires the backup tool to be highly efficient and performant. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the core requirements for the new tool is the ability to backup large datasets (in terabytes) and handle an on-going explosive data growth. <\/span><\/p>\n

With the introduction of Couchbase Server 4.5, backup capabilities have expanded beyond just taking full backups or incremental backups. The new tool enables the creation of a full backup valid to the point of the incremental backup, simply by merging the incremental backups into single full backup. This approach achieves an <\/span>incremental forever strategy<\/span> by saving incremental updates versus taking a full backup. <\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s take an example of a large deployment with <\/span><\/p>\n