Question

using 3rd party tools to download managed database backups

Posted on April 29, 2024
Backups Managed Databases
Asked by 587e61006dd54edeacd45725d620d0

Understood in this post that it’s not possible to directly download managed database backups. But it mentions that it’s possible by using rsync/SFTP.

The post: https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/can-i-download-a-backup-or-snapshot/

Any more info about this? If it’s even possible?

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alexdo

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• April 30, 2024

Heya, @587e61006dd54edeacd45725d620d0

You can import/export your database using tools like mysqldump (for MySQL), pg_dump (for PostgreSQL)

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mysql/how-to/import-databases/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-download-a-database-from-managed-database-cluster

You can use tools like rsync or sFTP to download the database backup if the backup itself it’s present on your droplet. You can first use mysqldump or pg_dump to backup the database on your droplet and then use rsync to download the backup on remote server.

To share your support for this feature, vote for downloading snapshots and backups on ideas.digitalocean.com.

Hope that this helps!