Create Hot Backup

Hot backups are created near instantaneously. The single server as well as other deployment modes try to obtain a global transaction lock to enforce consistency across all servers, databases, collections etc. Hot backups still require no Data Definition operations (e.g., create database, create collection) to be active at the time of backup, please review the requirements and limitations for more details.

Once that lock could be acquired the backup itself is most readily described as a consistent snapshot and as instantaneous as the quickest operation on the local file system.

arangobackup create --server.endpoint tcp://myserver:8529 --label my-label 

The above will create a hot backup with a unique identifier consisting of the UTC time according to the local computer clock output and the specified label and report the success like below.

2019-05-15T13:57:11Z [15213] INFO {backup} Server version: 3.4.5
2019-05-15T14:20:16Z [15397] INFO {backup} Backup succeeded. Generated identifier '2019-05-15T14.20.15Z_my-label'