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Incremental Backup Examples

Authentication

  1. Go to the SkySQL API Key management page and generate an API key
  2. Export the value from the token field to an environment variable $API_KEY 
    export API_KEY='... key data ...'
  3. Use it on subsequent request, e.g: 
    curl --request GET 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups/schedules' --header "X-API-Key: ${API_KEY}"

Incremental Backup

Incremental backups can be taken once you have full backup. Read here for more details.

One-time Incremental

To set up an one-time incremental backup, you need to make the following API call:

curl --location 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups/schedules' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'X-API-Key: ${API_KEY}' \
--data '{
    "backup_type": "incremental",
    "schedule": "once",
    "service_id": "$SERVICE_ID"
}'
  • API_KEY : SKYSQL API KEY, see SkySQL API Keys
  • SERVICE_ID : SkySQL service identifier, format dbtxxxxxx. You can fetch the service ID from the Fully qualified domain name(FQDN) of your service. E.g: in dbpgf17106534.sysp0000.db2.skysql.com, 'dbpgf17106534' is the service ID.You will find the FQDN in the Connect window

Cron Incremental

To set up an cron incremental backup, you need to make the following API call:

curl --location 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups/schedules' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'X-API-Key: ${API_KEY}' \
--data '{
    "backup_type": "incremental",
    "schedule": "0 3 * * *",
    "service_id": "$SERVICE_ID"
}'
- API_KEY : SKYSQL API KEY, see SkySQL API Keys - SCHEDULE : Cron schedule, see Cron - SERVICE_ID : SkySQL service identifier, format dbtxxxxxx

Backup status can be fetched using 'https://api.skysql.com/skybackup/v1/backups'. See the 'Backup Status' section for an example.