Backups

Aerospike Cloud automatically backs up your database clusters to external cloud storage for disaster recovery purposes. In AWS, data is sent to an S3 bucket in the same region as the node being backed up.

Caution

When you delete a database cluster, all of its backups are also deleted.

Backup schedule and retention

Backup type	Frequency	Retention period
Full backup	Weekly	90 days
Incremental backup	Daily	14 days

Restore from a backup

To restore your database from a backup, open a support ticket with Aerospike.