Operating Vitess: Backup and Restore

How do backups work in vitess?
Backup and Restore are integrated features provided by tablets managed by Vitess. As well as using backups for data integrity, Vitess will also create and r...
Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:30 PM
What is XtraBackup and how does Vitess use it?
Percona XtraBackup is an open source backup utility for MySQL. You can delve into Percona’s documentation on XtraBackup here. XtraBackup works with Vite...
Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:30 PM
What are my options to restore in vitess?
When a tablet starts, Vitess checks the value of the -restore_from_backup command-line flag to determine whether to restore a backup to that tablet. If th...
Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 1:30 PM
What is the default behavior of connection pooling after a failover?
The expected behavior is that the connection to the old master will close and that Vitess will try to reconnect to the new master.  AWS/Aurora To ensur...
Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 10:48 AM