Backup and Restore

Owned by Jason Kinchen
Jul 24, 2024

SciDB provides two utilities for assisting with backup and restore of cluster data: scidb_backup.py and rbactool.py.

  • scidb_backup.py saves and restores both SciDB array data and (for Enterprise Edition installations) SciDB role-based access control (RBAC) information.
  • rbactool.py saves and restores only Enterprise Edition access control information.  In "big data" installations, SciDB array data is kept on redundant storage to guard against data loss.  The SciDB system catalog's access control information resides in a different failure domain.  It must be backed up separately using the rbactool.py script.