Milvus Backup Tool

Milvus Backup Tool provides backup and restore functionalities for Milvus vector databases, ensuring data safety and disaster recovery capabilities.

Features

Backup and Restore: Enables backup and restoration of Milvus data with minimal impact on Milvus performance. The cluster remains operational during these processes.
Multiple Interfaces: Usable via command-line interface (CLI) or as a REST API server.
Flexible Storage Support: Supports various storage backends for both primary and backup storage, including local, MinIO, S3, AWS, GCP, Aliyun, Azure, Tencent Cloud.
Cross-Storage Backup: Allows for cross-storage backups (e.g., MinIO to AWS S3, S3 to local, or S3 A to S3 B).
RBAC Backup & Restore: Supports backup and restore of RBAC metadata with additional parameters.
Configurable Parallelism: Adjustable parallelism for backup and restore operations at collection and thread-pool levels.
Garbage Collection Handling: Can pause Milvus garbage collection during backup to ensure consistency.
API Documentation: Swagger UI is available for REST API usage details.
Comprehensive Configuration: All operational parameters are configurable via a YAML file (backup.yaml), including logging, Milvus connection, storage configuration, backup settings, and advanced options.
Minimal Performance Impact: Designed to have negligible effect on Milvus cluster performance during operation.
Temporary File Management: Optionally keep or delete temporary files during restore for debugging purposes.
Multiple Installation Methods: Available as downloadable binaries and via Homebrew for Mac.

Open Source: Milvus Backup Tool is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and is free to use.