How to save the database

Guide to taking a snapshot of the etcd database

snapshot to save point-in-time snapshot of etcd database:

11_etcdctl_snapshot_2016051001

Snapshot can only be requested from one etcd node, so --endpoints flag should contain only one endpoint.

ENDPOINTS=$HOST_1:2379
etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS snapshot save my.db

Snapshot saved at my.db

etcdutl --write-out=table snapshot status my.db

+---------+----------+------------+------------+
|  HASH   | REVISION | TOTAL KEYS | TOTAL SIZE |
+---------+----------+------------+------------+
| c55e8b8 |        9 |         13 | 25 kB      |
+---------+----------+------------+------------+

Last modified December 5, 2023: fix: :bug: `etcdctl` for `snapshot status` is deprecated (e9b3c80)