SkySQL Cloud Backup Release Notes

Overview

MariaDB SkySQL Cloud Backup is a backup and recovery solution offered by MariaDB.

SkySQL Cloud Backup is currently provided as a Technical Preview and is currently free to use. Products in Technical Preview should not be used with production environments. Users of the SkySQL Cloud Backup Technical Preview are encouraged to provide feedback.

Notable Features

  • Backups, backup operations, and restore operations are managed and monitored using a web-based management console.

  • Backup is currently supported for databases outside MariaDB SkySQL.

  • Restore is currently supported to MariaDB SkySQL cloud databases or databases outside MariaDB SkySQL.

  • Backups can currently be stored to a local filesystem or to SkySQL Cloud Backup storage.

  • Schedules currently support on-demand, hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly frequency.

  • Backup retention policies can currently be set based on days or count of backups.

Limits

SkySQL Cloud Backup is currently free to use.

SkySQL Cloud Backup is currently available as a Technical Preview. Products in Technical Preview should not be used with production environments.

The following usage limits have been established:

  • 100GB of SkySQL Cloud Backup Storage

  • 100GB of data egress

  • 5 managed agents

Known Issues

Products in Technical Preview should not be used with production environments.

The following known issues currently exist for the SkySQL Cloud Backup Technical Preview:

  • Only backups stored in SkySQL Cloud Backup Storage on AWS S3, and restore to SkySQL cloud databases on AWS currently work.

  • Backup tasks and restore tasks using GCP-based managed storage are limited to 12 hours execution time.

  • Failed backup tasks will not immediately retry, and will be repeated only at the next scheduled time.

  • To use the mydumper backup method and myloader restore method with on-premises databases, the version 0.14.3 or above of the mydumper package must be manually installed.

  • SkySQL cloud databases in the asia-south1 region are not currently shown.

Unsupported Features

  • Incremental backups, differential backups, and binlog backups are not currently supported.

  • Custom pre-backup and post-backup scripts are not currently supported.

  • SkySQL Cloud Backup managed agents are not currently supported.

  • SkySQL previous release databases are not shown.

Platforms

The SkySQL Cloud Backup agent can currently be installed on:

  • Ubuntu

  • Debian

  • CentOS

  • Red Hat

  • Amazon Linux AMI