Export Backups to your Own Cloud Account
This feature is available in the Enterprise plan. To upgrade, visit the Plans page in the cloud console.
ClickHouse Cloud allows exporting backups to your own cloud service provider (CSP) account storage (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage). For details of how ClickHouse Cloud backups work, including "full" vs. "incremental" backups, see the backups docs.
Here we walk through how you can export backups to your AWS, GCP, Azure object storage as well as how to restore from these backups in your account to a new ClickHouse Cloud service.
Users should be aware that any usage where backups are being exported to a different region in the same cloud provider will incur data transfer charges. Currently, we do not support cross-cloud backups.
To export backups to your own cloud account, you have two options:
- You can leverage the UI capability from the cloud console. This also allows you to also set backups to happen on a specific schedule by using configurable backups.
- You can use SQL commands to export backups to your bucket.
If you configure backups to your own bucket, ClickHouse Cloud will still take daily backups to its own bucket. This is to ensure that we have at least one copy of the data to restore from in case the backups in your own bucket get corrupted.
ClickHouse Cloud will not manage the lifecycle of backups in your bucket, as we do not have delete permissions for this data. You are responsible for ensuring that backups in your bucket are managed appropriately, for compliance reasons as well as to manage cost. If the backups are corrupted and / or moved to another location, restoring the backups will not work.
