SHOW BACKUP - CockroachDB

The SHOW BACKUP lists the contents of a backup created with the statement.

The SHOW BACKUP syntax without the IN keyword has been removed from CockroachDB v24.3 and later.For guidance on the syntax for SHOW BACKUP FROM, refer to the Synopsis and examples on this page.

Removed in v26.2: The incremental_location option has been removed in v26.2, following its prior . Existing backups taken with this option cannot be restored in v26.2 or later. If you have backups that use incremental_location, you can only restore them using a cluster running v26.1 or earlier.

Required privileges

SHOW BACKUP requires read permissions to its target destination. You can grant a user the EXTERNALIOIMPLICITACCESS to interact with external resources that require implicit access. Either the EXTERNALIOIMPLICITACCESS or the role is required for the following scenarios:

Interacting with a cloud storage resource using .
Using a custom endpoint on S3.
Using the command.

No special privilege is required for:

Interacting with an Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage resource using SPECIFIED credentials. Azure Storage is always SPECIFIED by default.
Using storage.

We recommend using .

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`SHOW BACKUPS IN collectionURI`	List the backup paths in the given . See the example.
`SHOW BACKUP FROM subdirectory IN collectionURI`	Show the details of backups in the subdirectory at the given . Also, use `FROM LATEST in collectionURI` to show the most recent backup. See the example.
`SHOW BACKUP SCHEMAS FROM subdirectory IN collectionURI`	Show the schema details of the backup in the given . See the example.
`collectionURI`	The URI for the . Note that `SHOW BACKUP` does not support listing backups if the storage location is a symlink. Cockroach Labs recommends using remote storage for backups.
`kv\_option\_list`	Control the behavior of `SHOW BACKUP` with a comma-separated list of these options.

Options

Option	Value	Description
`as\_json`	N/A	Display the backup’s internal metadata as JSON in the response.
`check\_files`	N/A	Validate that all files belonging to a backup are in the expected location in storage. See Validate a backup’s files for an example.
`debug\_ids`	N/A	Display descriptor IDs of every object in the backup, including the object’s database and parent schema.
`encryption\_passphrase`		The passphrase used to that the `BACKUP` statement generates (the data files and its manifest, containing the backup’s metadata).
`kms`		The URI of the cryptographic key stored in a key management service (KMS), or a comma-separated list of key URIs, used to . Refer to .
`incremental\_location`		List the details of an incremental backup taken with the .
`privileges`	N/A	List which users and roles had which privileges on each table in the backup. Displays original ownership of the backup.

Response

The following fields are returned:

Field	Value	Description
`database\_name`		The database name.
`parent\_schema\_name`		The name of the parent schema.
`object\_name`		The name of the , , , or schema.
`object\_type`		The type of object: , , , or schema.
`backup\_type`		The type of backup: or .
`start\_time`		The time of the earliest data encapsulated in the backup. Note that this only displays for incremental backups. For a full backup, this is `NULL`.
`end\_time`		The time to which data can be restored. This is equivalent to the of the backup. If the backup was not taken with , the `end\_time` is the only time the data can be restored to. If the backup was taken with revision history, the `end\_time` is the latest time the data can be restored to.
`size\_bytes`		The size of the backup objects, in bytes. Note that `size\_bytes` indicates the logical size of the table objects, which is computed as the sum of the size of each key value pair. See `file\_bytes` in this table for more detail.
`rows`		Number of rows in tables that are part of the backup.
`create\_statement`		The `CREATE` statement used to create , , or that are stored within the backup. This displays when `SHOW BACKUP SCHEMAS` is used. Note that tables with references to will only display foreign key constraints if the table to which the constraint relates to is also included in the backup.
`is\_full\_cluster`		Whether the backup is of a full cluster or not.
`regions`		The statement(s) used to configure , if they exist. If the database is a part of a single region cluster configuration, `NULL` will show.
`file\_bytes`		(With the `check\_files` option only) The estimated bytes in external storage for a particular table object. This is the physical bytes that a given table object is taking up. For example, when the files are written to disk in storage they could be compressed. If you total all file bytes, the result is the physical bytes in your storage location. Note that for smaller tables the byte size in `file\_bytes` may be larger than `size\_bytes` because of the overhead required to create an SST file.
`path`		The list of the ’s subdirectories. This field is returned for `SHOW BACKUPS IN collectionURI` only. The path format is `//-`.

See Show a backup with descriptor IDs for the responses displayed when the WITH debug_ids option is specified.

Examples

The examples in this section use one of the following storage URIs:

External connections, which allow you to represent an external storage or sink URI. You can then specify the external connection’s name in statements rather than the provider-specific URI. For detail on using external connections, see the page.
Amazon S3 connection strings with the default AUTH=specified parameter. For guidance on using AUTH=implicit authentication with Amazon S3 buckets instead, read .

For guidance on connecting to other storage options or using other authentication parameters instead, read .

View a list of the available full backup subdirectories

To view a list of the available subdirectories, use the following command:

SHOW BACKUPS IN 'external://backup_s3';

        path
-------------------------
/2022/04/13-202334.48
/2022/04/13-202413.70
(2 rows)

The path format is <year/<month/<day-<timestamp.

Show the most recent backup

To view the most recent backup, use the LATEST syntax:

SHOW BACKUP FROM LATEST IN 'external://backup_s3';

database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type | start_time |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows | is_full_cluster |                                             regions
----------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------+----------------------------+------------+------+-----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |       NULL | NULL |        f        | ALTER DATABASE movr SET PRIMARY REGION "us-east-2"; ALTER DATABASE movr ADD REGION "us-west-1";
movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |       NULL | NULL |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |      30069 |  327 |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | vehicles                   | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |      17456 |   88 |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | rides                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |     251254 |  862 |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | vehicle_location_histories | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |     660910 | 9649 |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | promo_codes                | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |     227789 | 1020 |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | user_promo_codes           | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |       6973 |   83 |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | crdb_internal_region       | type        | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |       NULL | NULL |        f        | NULL
movr          | public             | _crdb_internal_region      | type        | full        | NULL       | 2023-05-23 15:27:33.251745 |       NULL | NULL |        f        | NULL
(10 rows)

View a list of the full and incremental backups in a specific full backup subdirectory

To view a list of the and backups in a specific subdirectory, use the following command:

SHOW BACKUP FROM '2022/04/08-142355.33' IN 'external://backup_s3';

database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type |        start_time         |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows  | is_full_cluster
--------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+------------+-------+------------------
NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        | NULL                      | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557  |       NULL |  NULL |      false
movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL                      | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557  |       NULL |  NULL |      false
movr          | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL                      | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557  |      25856 |   281 |      false
NULL          | NULL               | system                     | database    | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |       NULL |  NULL |      true
system        | public             | users                      | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |         99 |     2 |      true
system        | public             | zones                      | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |        236 |     8 |      true
system        | public             | settings                   | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |        372 |     5 |      true
system        | public             | ui                         | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |          0 |     0 |      true
system        | public             | jobs                       | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |      30148 |    23 |      true
system        | public             | locations                  | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |        261 |     5 |      true
system        | public             | role_members               | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |         94 |     1 |      true
. . .

Show a backup taken with the incremental location option

To view an incremental backup that was taken with the incremental_location option, run SHOW BACKUP with the full backup and incremental backup location following the original BACKUP statement. You can use the option to show the most recent backup where incremental_location has stored the backup:

SHOW BACKUP FROM LATEST IN {'full backup collectionURI'} WITH incremental_location = {'incremental backup collectionURI'};

database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type |         start_time         |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows  | is_full_cluster
--------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+------------+-------+------------------
NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        | NULL                       | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 |       NULL |  NULL |      false
movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL                       | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 |       NULL |  NULL |      false
movr          | public             | rides                      | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 |     395716 |  1415 |      false
NULL          | NULL               | system                     | database    | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
system        | public             | users                      | table       | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |         99 |     2 |      true
system        | public             | scheduled_jobs             | table       | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |        250 |     1 |      true
system        | public             | database_role_settings     | table       | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |          0 |     0 |      true
system        | public             | tenant_settings            | table       | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |          0 |     0 |      true
NULL          | NULL               | defaultdb                  | database    | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
defaultdb     | NULL               | public                     | schema      | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
NULL          | NULL               | postgres                   | database    | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
postgres      | NULL               | public                     | schema      | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |       NULL |  NULL |      true
movr          | public             | users                      | table       | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |      81098 |   892 |      true
movr          | public             | vehicles                   | table       | incremental | 2022-04-13 20:01:15.177739 | 2022-04-13 20:05:04.2049   |      57755 |   296 |      true
. . .

Show locality-aware backups

SHOW BACKUP is able to display metadata using check_files for locality-aware backups taken with the option.

To view a list of , pass the endpoint that is set as the default location with COCKROACH_LOCALITY=default:

> SHOW BACKUPS IN 's3://{default collection URI}/{path}?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={placeholder}&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={placeholder}';

        path
-------------------------
/2023/02/23-150925.62
/2023/03/08-192859.44
(2 rows)

To view a , pass locality-aware backup URIs to SHOW BACKUP:

> SHOW BACKUP FROM LATEST IN ('s3://{bucket name}/locality?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={placeholder}&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={placeholder}&COCKROACH_LOCALITY=default', 's3://{bucket name}/locality?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={placeholder}&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={placeholder}&COCKROACH_LOCALITY=region%3Dus-west');

  database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type | start_time |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows | is_full_cluster
----------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------+----------------------------+------------+------+------------------
  NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |       NULL | NULL |        f
  movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |       NULL | NULL |        f
  movr          | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |       5633 |   58 |        f
  movr          | public             | vehicles                   | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |       3617 |   17 |        f
  movr          | public             | rides                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |     159269 |  511 |        f
  movr          | public             | vehicle_location_histories | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |      79963 | 1092 |        f
  movr          | public             | promo_codes                | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |     221763 | 1003 |        f
  movr          | public             | user_promo_codes           | table       | full        | NULL       | 2023-02-23 15:09:25.625777 |        927 |   11 |        f
(8 rows)

Show a backup with schemas

SHOW BACKUP SCHEMAS FROM '2022/04/08-142601.69' IN 'external://backup_s3';

database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type |        start_time         |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows  | is_full_cluster |                                                                                                                create_statement
--------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+------------+-------+-----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        | NULL                      | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557  |       NULL |  NULL |      false      | NULL
movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL                      | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557  |       NULL |  NULL |      false      | NULL
movr          | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL                      | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557  |      25856 |   281 |      false      | CREATE TABLE users (
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     id UUID NOT NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     city VARCHAR NOT NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     name VARCHAR NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     address VARCHAR NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     credit_card VARCHAR NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     CONSTRAINT users_pkey PRIMARY KEY (city ASC, id ASC)
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 | )
NULL          | NULL               | system                     | database    | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |       NULL |  NULL |      true       | NULL
system        | public             | users                      | table       | incremental | 2022-04-08 14:23:55.33557 | 2022-04-08 14:26:01.699694 |         99 |     2 |      true       | CREATE TABLE users (
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     username STRING NOT NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     "hashedPassword" BYTES NULL,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     "isRole" BOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     CONSTRAINT "primary" PRIMARY KEY (username ASC),
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     FAMILY "primary" (username),
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     FAMILY "fam_2_hashedPassword" ("hashedPassword"),
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 |     FAMILY "fam_3_isRole" ("isRole")
              |                    |                            |             |             |                           |                            |            |       |                 | )
. . .

Show a backup with privileges

Use the WITH privileges option to view a list of which users and roles had which privileges on each database and table in the backup. This parameter also displays the original owner of objects in the backup:

SHOW BACKUP FROM '2022/07/07-160311.96' IN 'external://backup_s3' WITH privileges;

 database_name  | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type | start_time |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows  | is_full_cluster |                                                                                        privileges                                                                                         | owner
----------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------+----------------------------+------------+-------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
NULL            | NULL               | system                     | database    | full        | NULL       | 2022-07-07 16:03:11.962683 |       NULL |  NULL |      true       | GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE system TO admin; GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE system TO root;                                                                                                      | node
system          | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-07-07 16:03:11.962683 |         99 |     2 |      true       | GRANT DELETE, GRANT, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON TABLE users TO admin; GRANT DELETE, GRANT, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON TABLE users TO root;                                                  | node
system          | public             | zones                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-07-07 16:03:11.962683 |        236 |     8 |      true       | GRANT DELETE, GRANT, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON TABLE zones TO admin; GRANT DELETE, GRANT, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON TABLE zones TO root;                                                  | node
system          | public             | settings                   | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-07-07 16:03:11.962683 |        423 |     6 |      true       | GRANT DELETE, GRANT, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON TABLE settings TO admin; GRANT DELETE, GRANT, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON TABLE settings TO root;                                            | root
movr            | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL       | 2022-07-07 16:03:11.962683 |       NULL |  NULL |      true       | GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO admin; GRANT CREATE, USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO public; GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO root;                                                                  | admin
movr            | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-07-07 16:03:11.962683 |      57787 |   634 |      true       | GRANT ALL ON TABLE users TO admin; GRANT ALL ON TABLE users TO root;                                                                                                                      | root

You will receive an error if there is a collection of backups in the storage location that you pass to SHOW BACKUP. It is necessary to run SHOW BACKUP with the specific backup directory rather than the backup collection’s top-level directory. Use SHOW BACKUPS IN with your storage location to list the backup directories it contains, which can then be run with SHOW BACKUP to inspect the metadata.

Show details for scheduled backups

When a , it is stored within a collection of backups in the given collection URI. To view details for a backup created by a schedule, you can use the following:

SHOW BACKUPS IN collectionURI statement to view a list of the available full backup subdirectories.
SHOW BACKUP FROM subdirectory IN collectionURI statement to view a list of the full and incremental backups that are stored in a specific full backup’s subdirectory.

Show an encrypted backup

Depending on how the backup was , use the and the same passphrase that was used to create the backup:

SHOW BACKUP FROM '2020/09/24-190540.54' IN 's3://{bucket name}?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={placeholder}&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={placeholder}'
      WITH encryption_passphrase = 'password123';

Or, use the kms option and the same KMS URI that was used to create the backup:

SHOW BACKUP FROM '2020/09/24-190540.54' IN 's3://test/backups/test_explicit_kms?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=123&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=123'
      WITH kms = 'aws:///arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789:key/1234-abcd-5678-efgh-90ij?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=123456&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=123456&REGION=us-east-1';

  database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type | start_time |          end_time                 | size_bytes | rows | is_full_cluster
----------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------------------------------------------+------------+------+------------------
  NULL          | NULL               | system                     | database    | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       NULL | NULL |      true
  system        | public             | users                      | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |        144 |    3 |      true
  system        | public             | zones                      | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |        201 |    7 |      true
  system        | public             | settings                   | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |        431 |    6 |      true
  system        | public             | ui                         | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |          0 |    0 |      true
  system        | public             | jobs                       | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |     434302 |   62 |      true
  system        | public             | locations                  | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |        261 |    5 |      true
  system        | public             | role_members               | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |        184 |    2 |      true
  system        | public             | comments                   | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |          0 |    0 |      true
  system        | public             | scheduled_jobs             | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |        875 |    2 |      true
  NULL          | NULL               | defaultdb                  | database    | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       NULL | NULL |      true
  NULL          | NULL               | postgres                   | database    | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       NULL | NULL |      true
  NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       NULL | NULL |      true
  movr          | public             | users                      | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       4911 |   50 |      true
  movr          | public             | vehicles                   | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       3182 |   15 |      true
  movr          | public             | rides                      | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |     156387 |  500 |      true
  movr          | public             | vehicle_location_histories | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |      73918 | 1000 |      true
  movr          | public             | promo_codes                | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |     216083 | 1000 |      true
  movr          | public             | user_promo_codes           | table       | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |          0 |    0 |      true
  defaultdb     | NULL               | org_one                    | schema      | full        |  NULL       | 2020-09-24 19:05:40.542168+00:00 |       NULL | NULL |      true
(20 rows)

Show a backup with descriptor IDs

Use WITH debug_ids to display the descriptor IDs related to each object in the backup:

SHOW BACKUP FROM '/2021/11/15-150703.21' IN 'external://backup_s3' WITH debug_ids;

database_name | database_id | parent_schema_name | parent_schema_id |        object_name         | object_id | object_type | backup_type |         start_time         |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows  | is_full_cluster
--------------+-------------+--------------------+------------------+----------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+------------+-------+------------------
NULL          |        NULL | NULL               |             NULL | movr                       |        52 | database    | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |       NULL |  NULL |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | users                      |        53 | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |      35876 |   392 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | vehicles                   |        54 | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |      25404 |   129 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | rides                      |        55 | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |     280020 |   971 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | vehicle_location_histories |        56 | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |     865205 | 12686 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | promo_codes                |        57 | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |     229155 |  1043 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | user_promo_codes           |        58 | table       | full        | NULL                       | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 |      10824 |   128 |      false
NULL          |        NULL | NULL               |             NULL | movr                       |        52 | database    | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |       NULL |  NULL |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | users                      |        53 | table       | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |          0 |     0 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | vehicles                   |        54 | table       | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |          0 |     0 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | rides                      |        55 | table       | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |          0 |     0 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | vehicle_location_histories |        56 | table       | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |          0 |     0 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | promo_codes                |        57 | table       | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |          0 |     0 |      false
movr          |          52 | public             |               29 | user_promo_codes           |        58 | table       | incremental | 2021-10-04 15:18:29.872912 | 2021-10-04 15:18:53.354707 |          0 |     0 |      false

Validate a backup’s files

Use SHOW BACKUP... check_files with a backup for validation:

SHOW BACKUP "2022/09/19-134123.64" IN "s3://bucket?AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={Access Key ID}&AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={Secret Access Key}" WITH check_files;

This will return the following output after validating that the backup files are correct and present:

  database_name | parent_schema_name |        object_name         | object_type | backup_type | start_time |          end_time          | size_bytes | rows  | is_full_cluster | file_bytes
----------------+--------------------+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------+----------------------------+------------+-------+-----------------+-------------
  NULL          | NULL               | movr                       | database    | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |       NULL |  NULL |        f        |       NULL
  movr          | NULL               | public                     | schema      | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |       NULL |  NULL |        f        |       NULL
  movr          | public             | users                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |      31155 |   340 |        f        |      16598
  movr          | public             | vehicles                   | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |      22282 |   113 |        f        |      12459
  movr          | public             | rides                      | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |     261950 |   902 |        f        |     135831
  movr          | public             | vehicle_location_histories | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |     742557 | 10850 |        f        |     318583
  movr          | public             | promo_codes                | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |     228320 |  1034 |        f        |     118376
  movr          | public             | user_promo_codes           | table       | full        | NULL       | 2022-09-19 13:41:23.645189 |       9320 |   111 |        f        |       4832

The output will return file_bytes along with the columns you receive from SHOW BACKUP without check_files. The file_bytes column indicates the estimated bytes in external storage for a particular table object. For more detail on the output columns, see the SHOW BACKUP table.

If SHOW BACKUP... check_files cannot read from a file, it will return an error message similar to the following:
ERROR: The following files are missing from the backup: s3:/bucket-name/2022/09/19-134123.64/data/797981063156727810.sst
SHOW BACKUP... check_files will return up to ten file paths for incorrect or missing files.

For more information on validating a backup, see the page.

Show a backup’s internal metadata

Use the WITH as_json option to output a backup’s internal metadata, contained in its manifest file, as a JSON value:

SHOW BACKUP FROM '/2021/11/15-150703.21' IN 'external://backup_s3' WITH as_json;

The response will include a manifest column with the file’s contents as the JSON value. Use to query particular data or edit the format of the response. The response returned from SHOW BACKUP FROM... WITH as_json is a backup’s internal metadata. This content is subject to change from version to version of CockroachDB and does not offer the same stability guarantees as the other SHOW BACKUP options and their responses. As a result, as_json should only be used for debugging or general inspection purposes. For example, to return a specific entry from the JSON response as a indented and with newlines use the function:

WITH x AS (SHOW BACKUP FROM '/2021/11/15-150703.21' IN 'external://backup_s3' with as_json) SELECT jsonb_pretty(manifest->'entryCounts') AS f FROM x;

  {
      "dataSize": "458371",
      "indexEntries": "1015",
      "rows": "2565"
  }

To query for particular data, use the to expand the desired elements from the JSON response. The following query returns the paths to each of the data files within the backup:

WITH x AS (SHOW BACKUP FROM '/2021/11/15-150703.21' IN 'external://backup_s3' WITH as_json) SELECT f->>'path' FROM (SELECT jsonb_array_elements(manifest->'files') AS f FROM x);

          ?column?
-------------------------------
  data/710798326337404929.sst
  data/710798326337404929.sst
  data/710798328891998209.sst
  data/710798326337404929.sst
  data/710798326337404929.sst
  data/710798328434982913.sst
  data/710798328891998209.sst
  data/710798326337404929.sst
  data/710798326337404929.sst

​Required privileges

​Synopsis

​Parameters

​Options

​Response

​Examples

​View a list of the available full backup subdirectories

​Show the most recent backup

​View a list of the full and incremental backups in a specific full backup subdirectory

​Show a backup taken with the incremental location option

​Show locality-aware backups

​Show a backup with schemas

​Show a backup with privileges

​Show details for scheduled backups

​Show an encrypted backup

​Show a backup with descriptor IDs

​Validate a backup’s files

​Show a backup’s internal metadata

​See also

Required privileges

Synopsis

Parameters

Options

Response

Examples

View a list of the available full backup subdirectories

Show the most recent backup

View a list of the full and incremental backups in a specific full backup subdirectory

Show a backup taken with the incremental location option

Show locality-aware backups

Show a backup with schemas

Show a backup with privileges

Show details for scheduled backups

Show an encrypted backup

Show a backup with descriptor IDs

Validate a backup’s files

Show a backup’s internal metadata

See also