Console - RESTORE DATABASE

Restores a database from a backup. It must be done against a new database. It does not support restores that merge with an existing database. If you need to backup and restore to an existing database, use the EXPORT DATABASE and IMPORT DATABASE commands.

OrientDB Enterprise Edition version 2.2 and major, support incremental backup.

To create a backup file to restore from, use the BACKUP DATABASE command.

Syntax

RESTORE DATABASE <backup-file>|<incremental-backup-directory>

• <backup-file> Defines the database file you want to restore.
• <incremental-backup-directory> Defines the database directory you want to restore from an incremental backup. Available only in OrientDB Enterprise Edition version 2.2 and major.

Permissions:

In order to enable a user to execute this command, you must add the permission of create for the resource database.restore to the database user.

Example of full restore

• Create a new database to receive the restore:

  orientdb> CREATE DATABASE PLOCAL:/tmp/mydb
  

• Restore the database from the mydb.zip backup file:

  orientdb {db=/tmp/mydb}> RESTORE DATABASE /backups/mydb.zip
  

Example of incremental restore

This is available only in OrientDB Enterprise Edition version 2.2 and major.

• Open a database to receive the restore:

  orientdb> CONNECT PLOCAL:/tmp/mydb
  

• Restore the database from the /backup backup directory:

  orientdb {db=/tmp/mydb}> RESTORE DATABASE /backup
  

For more information, see the BACKUP DATABASE, EXPORT DATABASE, IMPORT DATABASE commands. For more information on other commands, see Console Commands.