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cbbackupmgr info

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      Return information about the backup archive

      SYNOPSIS

      cbbackupmgr info [--archive <archive_dir>] [--repo <repo_name>]
                 [--backup <bucket_list>]
                 [--collection-string <collection_string>]
                 [--json] [--all] [--depth <depth>]
                 [--obj-access-key-id <access_key_id>]
                 [--obj-cacert <cert_path>] [--obj-endpoint <endpoint>]
                 [--obj-no-ssl-verify] [--obj-region <region>]
                 [--obj-staging-dir <staging_dir>]
                 [--obj-secret-access-key <secret_access_key>]
                 [--s3-force-path-style] [--s3-log-level <level>]

      DESCRIPTION

      This command provides information about the given path, be it the whole archive, repository, backup or bucket. The information can be displayed in a tabular format or JSON. By default only two levels of the data hierarchy will be displayed in tabular format, to see it all use the --all flag. For the exact format of the output please see the examples below. Unlike the list command this command will not list individual files.

      OPTIONS

      Below are the required and optional parameters for the info command.

      Required

      -a,--archive <archive_dir>

      The location of the backup archive to display information about. When using info against an archive stored in S3 you must prefix the archive path with s3://${BUCKET_NAME}/.

      Optional

      -r,--repo <repo_name>

      If specified, the info command will only display information for this backup repository.

      --backup <backup>

      If specified, the info command will only display information for this backup. The --repo flag must also be specified if this flag is used.

      --collection-string <collection_string>

      A dot separated collection string representing the bucket/scope/collection to get info for. The --backup flag must be provided if this flag is used.

      --start <start>

      Only backups which fall between the range specified by --start and --end will be included in the output. --start and --end must be supplied together and are only valid when getting info for a repository. See START AND END for information on what values are accepted.

      --end <end>

      Only backups which fall between the range specified by --start and --end will be included in the output. --start and --end must be supplied together and are only valid when getting info for a repository. See START AND END for information on what values are accepted.

      --json

      If specified the output will be a json object.

      --all

      Show all levels of the data hierarchy. Note that for json output all levels are always returned. This flag will override any value supplied to --depth.

      --depth <depth>

      Show depth layers of additional information when printing non json output to stdout. By default two layers of information will be displayed. Accepts any non-zero positive integer.

      Cloud integration

      Native cloud integration is an Enterprise Edition feature which was introduced in Couchbase Server 6.6.0.

      Required

      --obj-staging-dir <staging_dir>

      When performing an operation on an archive which is located in the cloud such as AWS, the staging directory is used to store local meta data files. This directory can be temporary (it’s not treated as a persistent store) and is only used during the backup. NOTE: Do not use /tmp as the obj-staging-dir. See Disk requirements in cbbackupmgr-cloud for more information.

      Optional

      --obj-access-key-id <access_key_id>

      The access key id which has access to your chosen object store. This option can be omitted when using the shared config functionality provided by your chosen object store. Can alternatively be provided using the CB_OBJSTORE_ACCESS_KEY_ID environment variable.

      --obj-cacert <cert_path>

      Specifies a CA certificate that will be used to verify the identity of the object store being connected to.

      --obj-endpoint <endpoint>

      The host/address of your object store.

      --obj-no-ssl-verify

      Skips the SSL verification phase when connecting to the object store. Specifying this flag will allow a connection using SSL encryption, but you are vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack.

      --obj-region <region>

      The region in which your bucket/container resides. For AWS this option may be omitted when using the shared config functionality. See the AWS section of the cloud documentation for more information.

      --obj-secret-access-key <secret_access_key>

      The secret access key which has access to you chosen object store. This option can be omitted when using the shared config functionality provided by your chosen object store. Can alternatively be provided using the CB_OBJSTORE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variable.

      --obj-log-level <level>

      Set the log level for the cloud providers SDK. By default logging will be disabled. Valid options are cloud provider specific and are listed below.

      The valid options for the AWS SDK are debug, debug-with-signing, debug-with-body, debug-with-request-retries, debug-with-request-errors, and debug-with-event-stream-body.

      The valid options for the Azure SDK are none, fatal, panic, error, warning, info and debug.

      --obj-auth-by-instance-metadata

      By default authenticating using instance metadata is disabled, supplying this flag will allow the fetching credentials/auth tokens from (VM) internal instance metadata endpoints.

      AWS S3 Options

      Optional
      --s3-force-path-style

      By default the updated virtual style paths will be used when interfacing with AWS S3. This option will force the AWS SDK to use the alternative path style URLs which are often required by S3 compatible object stores.

      START AND END

      This sub-command accepts a --start and --end flag. These flags accept multiple values to allow you to flexibly operate on a range of backups.

      Indexes

      Indexes may be supplied to operate on a range of backups, for example --start 1 --end 2 will include start at the first backup and will finish with the second backup. Note that the first backup is 1 and not 0 and that the --end flag is inclusive.

      Short Dates

      Short dates may be supplied in the format day-month-year. For example --start 01-08-2020 --end 31-08-2020 will operate on all the backups which were taken during August of 2020. Note that the end date is inclusive.

      When supplying short dates, you may supply start or oldest as a placeholder for the date on which the first backup in this repository was taken. The keywords end or latest may be used as a placeholder for the date last backup in the repository was taken.

      Backup Names

      Backup names may be supplied as they exist on disk. For example --start 2020-08-13T20_01_08.894226137+01_00 --end 2020-08-13T20_01_12.348300092+01_00 will cause the sub-command to operate on all the backups which inclusively fall between these two backups.

      When supplying backup names, you may supply start or oldest as a placeholder for the first backup in the repository. The keywords end or latest may be used as a placeholder for the final backup in the repository.

      EXAMPLES

      The info command will display information of the backup archive in a user friendly manner. Let’s imagine we have a backup archive /backup_archive and we want to see information about it we would run the command:

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a /backup_archive

Name             | Size      | # Repos  |
backup_archive   | 111.00MB  | 2        |

*    Name        | Size     | # Backups  |
*    Manchester  | 55.56MB  | 1          |
*    London      | 55.44MB  | 2          |

      This shows us that the archive backup_archive has two repositories and has a total size of 110MB. It will also provide one level more into the hierarchy and show information of the two repositories Manchester and London and we can see their respective sizes as well as the number of backups each contains.

      If we wanted to get more in depth information of the repository we would provide the repository name as follows:

      $cbbackupmgr info -a ~/backup_archive -r London

Name    | Size     | # Backups  |
London  | 55.44MB  | 2          |

+  Backup                       | Size     | Type  | Source                 | Range  | Events  | Aliases  | Complete  |
+  2019-03-15T13_19_54.826458Z  | 3.02MB   | INCR  | http://localhost:8091  | N/A    | 0       | 1        | true      |
+  2019-03-15T12_18_00.514284Z  | 52.42MB  | FULL  | http://localhost:8091  | N/A    | 0       | 1        | true      |

      This gives more in depth information about each backup such as the timestamp from when it was made, the size, the type which can be either a full backup (FULL), and incremental backup (INCR) or a merge (MERGE). We can also see the address of the cluster we backed up the data from. The range column is used by merges. If the backup is a merge the range has the start timestamp the end timestamp and the number of backups that where merge in the format start - end : count. Event and aliases are the number of events and full text search indexes aliases that where restored. Finally the complete field indicates if the backup finished successfully or not.

      It is possible to get information for an individual backup as well by using the following command:

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a ~/backup_archive -r London --backup 2019-03-15T12_18_00.514284Z

Backup                       | Size     | Type  | Source                 | Range  | Events  | Aliases  | Complete  |
2019-03-15T12_18_00.514284Z  | 52.42MB  | FULL  | http://localhost:8091  | N/A    | 0       | 1        | true      |

 -   Bucket          | Size     | Items  | Mutations | Tombstones | Views  | FTS  | Indexes  | CBAS  |
 -   beer-sample     | 6.85MB   | 7303   | 7303      | 0          | 1      | 0    | 1        | 0     |
 -   gamesim-sample  | 2.86MB   | 586    | 586       | 0          | 1      | 0    | 1        | 0     |
 -   travel-sample   | 42.72MB  | 31591  | 31591     | 0          | 0      | 0    | 10       | 0     |

      The command above provides information about all buckets in the specific backup. This includes the size of the data in each bucket, the number of items which includes mutations and tombstones, the number of mutations and the number of deletions. For backups made with cbbackupmgr older than 6.5 mutations and deletions will always be 0 as this is only supported by archives made with cbbackupmgr 6.5+. For the buckets it will also shows the number of view, full text indexes, the number of GSIs and the number of analytics metadata records.

      To see information for one bucket only we would use the --collection-string flag and give it the name of the bucket and this would return just the information for that bucket.

      To see from one level to the last the --all flag must be provided this will show the information from the provided level to the bucket level. An example can be seen below:

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a ~/backup_archive --all

Name         | UUID                                 | Size     | # Repos  |
backup_repo  | 32c97d5f-821a-4284-840b-9ee7cf8733a3 | 55.56MB  | 1        |

*  Name        | Size     | # Backups  |
*  Manchester  | 55.56MB  | 1          |

+    Backup                      | Size     | Type   | Source  | Cluster UUID                     | Range                                      | Events  | Aliases  | Complete  |
+    2019-03-15T13_52_27.18301Z  | 55.56MB  | MERGE  | MERGE   | c044f5eeb1dc16d0cd49dac29074b5f9 | 2019-03-15T13_51_44-2019-03-15T13_51_58:3  | 0       | 1        | true      |

-      Bucket          | Size     | Items  | Mutations | Tombstones | Views  | FTS  | Indexes  | CBAS  |
-      beer-sample     | 6.85MB   | 7303   | 7303      | 0          | 1      | 0    | 1        | 0     |
-      gamesim-sample  | 2.86MB   | 586    | 586       | 0          | 1      | 0    | 1        | 0     |
-      travel-sample   | 42.72MB  | 31591  | 31591     | 0          | 0      | 0    | 10       | 0     |

      To display only a certain number of layers when displaying info in tabular format you may provide the --depth flag with a non-zero positive integer. This gives more fine grained control over what information is displayed that --all. Using the --all flag will implicitly override any value provided to --depth.

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a ~/backup_archive --depth 1

Name         | UUID                                 | Size     | # Repos  |
backup_repo  | 32c97d5f-821a-4284-840b-9ee7cf8733a3 | 55.56MB  | 1        |

      The info command also allows for JSON output which can be useful for automation or users that would rather get the information in json format. The output json will have the format seen below. Note that all sizes will be in bytes and that for non-merge backups the range field will be empty.

      {
  "name": NAME,
  "archive_uuid": UUID,
  "size": SIZE,
  "repos": [
    {
      "name": NAME,
      "size": SIZE,
      "count": BACKUP_COUNT,
      "backups": [
        {
          "date": DATE,
          "complete: BOOL
          "size": SIZE,
          "type": ["incr"| "full" | "merge"],
          "source": SOURCE,
          "range":[all backups date involved in the merge],
          "event": COUNT,
          "fts_alias": COUNT,
          "source_cluster_uuid": UUID,
          "buckets": [
            {
              "name": BUCKET_NAME,
              "size": SIZE,
              "items": COUNT,
              "mutations": COUNT,
              "tombstones": COUNT,
              "views_count": COUNT,
              "fts_count": COUNT,
              "analytics": COUNT
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]

      The info command also supports getting information about an archive which is stored directly in AWS S3. This will download a very minimal amount of data e.g. it won’t download the whole archive.

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a s3://bucket/backup_archive --all --obj-staging-dir ~/backup-archive

Name         | UUID                                 | Size     | # Repos  |
backup_repo  | 32c97d5f-821a-4284-840b-9ee7cf8733a3 | 55.56MB  | 1        |

*  Name        | Size     | # Backups  |
*  Manchester  | 55.56MB  | 1          |

+    Backup                      | Size     | Type   | Source  | Cluster UUID                     | Range                                      | Events  | Aliases  | Complete  |
+    2019-03-15T13_52_27.18301Z  | 55.56MB  | MERGE  | MERGE   | c044f5eeb1dc16d0cd49dac29074b5f9 | 2019-03-15T13_51_44-2019-03-15T13_51_58:3  | 0       | 1        | true      |

-      Bucket          | Size     | Items  | Mutations | Tombstones | Views  | FTS  | Indexes  | CBAS  |
-      beer-sample     | 6.85MB   | 7303   | 7303      | 0          | 1      | 0    | 1        | 0     |
-      gamesim-sample  | 2.86MB   | 586    | 586       | 0          | 1      | 0    | 1        | 0     |
-      travel-sample   | 42.72MB  | 31591  | 31591     | 0          | 0      | 0    | 10       | 0     |

      The info command allows you to limit the range of backups that are included in the output. This can be used to answer a few important questions before performing a merge/restore. "Is backup X included in a merge/restore with this range?" or "When I merge/restore with this range, will it include a full backup?".

      Lets tackle the question "When I merge with this range, will it include a full backup?"

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a /archive -r repo
Name | Size    | # Backups |
repo | 88.11MB | 5         |

+  Backup                              | Size    | Type | Source                 | Cluster UUID                     | Range | Events | Aliases | Complete |
+  2020-07-18T18_19_54.057655243+01_00 | 17.62MB | FULL | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_21.319063119+01_00 | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_26.250684761+01_00 | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_30.765048405+01_00 | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_41.39884127+01_00  | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |

      The above repository contains five backups in total where only the first is a full backup. We would like to merge all the backups in August and want to ensure that we will be merging a full backup.

      $ cbbackupmgr info -a /archive -r repo --start 01-08-2020 --end 31-08-2020
Name | Size    | # Backups |
repo | 70.49MB | 4         |

+  Backup                              | Size    | Type | Source                 | Cluster UUID                     | Range | Events | Aliases | Complete |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_21.319063119+01_00 | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_26.250684761+01_00 | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_30.765048405+01_00 | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_41.39884127+01_00  | 17.62MB | INCR | http://172.20.1.1:8091 | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | N/A   | 0      | 0       | true     |

      Given the output above, it’s clear that merging all the backups taken in August will not result in a merged full backup. To result in a merged full backup, we would also need to include backups taken in July.

      $ cbbackupmgr merge -a /archive -r repo --start 01-07-2020 --end 31-08-2020
(1/5) Merging backup '2020-07-18T18_19_54.057655243+01_00'
Copied all data in 1.342126932s (Avg. 2.98MB/Sec)                                                   50000 items / 2.98MB
[==============================================================================================================] 100.00%
Merge bucket 'default' succeeded
Mutations merged: 50000, Mutations failed to merged: 0
Deletions merged: 0, Deletions failed to merged: 0

(2/5) Merging backup '2020-08-18T18_20_21.319063119+01_00'
Copied all data in 2.601879822s (Avg. 1.49MB/Sec)                                                   50000 items / 2.98MB
[==============================================================================================================] 100.00%
Merge bucket 'default' succeeded
Mutations merged: 50000, Mutations failed to merged: 0
Deletions merged: 0, Deletions failed to merged: 0

(3/5) Merging backup '2020-08-18T18_20_26.250684761+01_00'
Copied all data in 3.85210489s (Avg. 1016.84KB/Sec)                                                 50000 items / 2.98MB
[==============================================================================================================] 100.00%
Merge bucket 'default' succeeded
Mutations merged: 50000, Mutations failed to merged: 0
Deletions merged: 0, Deletions failed to merged: 0

(4/5) Merging backup '2020-08-18T18_20_30.765048405+01_00'
Copied all data in 5.057777071s (Avg. 610.10KB/Sec)                                                 50000 items / 2.98MB
[==============================================================================================================] 100.00%
Merge bucket 'default' succeeded
Mutations merged: 50000, Mutations failed to merged: 0
Deletions merged: 0, Deletions failed to merged: 0

(5/5) Merging backup '2020-08-18T18_20_41.39884127+01_00'
Copied all data in 6.24708519s (Avg. 508.42KB/Sec)                                                  50000 items / 2.98MB
[==============================================================================================================] 100.00%
Merge bucket 'default' succeeded
Mutations merged: 50000, Mutations failed to merged: 0
Deletions merged: 0, Deletions failed to merged: 0
Merge completed successfully

$ cbbackupmgr info -a /archive -r repo
Name | Size    | # Backups |
repo | 24.11MB | 1         |

+  Backup                             | Size    | Type         | Source | Cluster UUID                     | Range                                         | Events | Aliases | Complete |
+  2020-08-18T18_20_41.39884127+01_00 | 24.11MB | MERGE - FULL | Merge  | 8527d470b07095084cf45e1a772a7ba9 | 2020-07-18T18_19_54 - 2020-08-18T18_20_21 - 5 | 0      | 0       | true     |

      As we can clearly see, after we modified our backup range to include July, we correctly merged all five backups including the full backup. Which is indicated by the MERGE - FULL type for the resulting backup.

      ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

      CB_ARCHIVE_PATH

      Specifies the path to the backup archive. If the archive path is supplied as a command line argument then this value is overridden.

      CB_OBJSTORE_STAGING_DIRECTORY

      Specifies the path to the staging directory. If the --obj-staging-dir argument is provided in the command line then this value is overridden.

      CB_OBJSTORE_REGION

      Specifies the object store region. If the --obj-region argument is provided in the command line then this value is overridden.

      CB_OBJSTORE_ACCESS_KEY_ID

      Specifies the object store access key id. If the --obj-access-key-id argument is provided in the command line this value is overridden.

      CB_OBJSTORE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

      Specifies the object store secret access key. If the --obj-secret-access-key argument is provided in the command line this value is overridden.

      CB_AWS_ENABLE_EC2_METADATA

      By default cbbackupmgr will disable fetching EC2 instance metadata. Setting this environment variable to true will allow the AWS SDK to fetch metadata from the EC2 instance endpoint.

      SEE ALSO

      cbbackupmgr-archivelayout, cbbackupmgr-cloud

      CBBACKUPMGR

      Part of the cbbackupmgr suite