taosdump is a tool application that supports backing up data from a running TDengine cluster and restoring the backed up data to the same or another running TDengine cluster.
taosdump is a tool that supports backing up data from a running TDengine cluster and restoring the backed up data to the same, or another running TDengine cluster.
taosdump can back up a database, a super table, or a normal table as a logical data unit or backup data records in the database, super tables, and normal tables. When using taosdump, you can specify the directory path for data backup. If you do not specify a directory, taosdump will back up the data to the current directory by default.
Suppose the specified location already has data files. In that case, taosdump will prompt the user and exit immediately to avoid data overwriting which means that the same path can only be used for one backup.
Please be careful if you see a prompt for this.
If the specified location already has data files, taosdump will prompt the user and exit immediately to avoid data overwriting. This means that the same path can only be used for one backup.
Please be careful if you see a prompt for this and please ensure that you follow best practices and relevant SOPs for data integrity, backup and data security.
Users should not use taosdump to back up raw data, environment settings, hardware information, server configuration, or cluster topology. taosdump uses [Apache AVRO](https://avro.apache.org/) as the data file format to store backup data.
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2. backup multiple specified databases: use `-D db1,db2,... ` parameters;
3. back up some super or normal tables in the specified database: use `-dbname stbname1 stbname2 tbname1 tbname2 ... ` parameters. Note that the first parameter of this input sequence is the database name, and only one database is supported. The second and subsequent parameters are the names of super or normal tables in that database, separated by spaces.
4. back up the system log database: TDengine clusters usually contain a system database named `log`. The data in this database is the data that TDengine runs itself, and the taosdump will not back up the log database by default. If users need to back up the log database, users can use the `-a` or `-allow-sys` command-line parameter.
5. Loose mode backup: taosdump version 1.4.1 onwards provides `-n` and `-L` parameters for backing up data without using escape characters and "loose" mode, which can reduce the number of backups if table names, column names, tag names do not use This can reduce the backup data time and backup data footprint if table names, column names, and tag names do not use `escape character`. If you are unsure about using `-n` and `-L` conditions, please use the default parameters for "strict" mode backup. See the [official documentation](/taos-sql/escape) for a description of escaped characters.
5. Loose mode backup: taosdump version 1.4.1 onwards provides `-n` and `-L` parameters for backing up data without using escape characters and "loose" mode, which can reduce the number of backups if table names, column names, tag names do not use escape characters. This can also reduce the backup data time and backup data footprint. If you are unsure about using `-n` and `-L` conditions, please use the default parameters for "strict" mode backup. See the [official documentation](/taos-sql/escape) for a description of escaped characters.
:::tip
- taosdump versions after 1.4.1 provide the `-I` argument for parsing Avro file schema and data. If users specify `-s` then only taosdump will parse schema.
