Backup and Restore to Local storage

[stugatz21]

A few questions surrounding backups with ScyllaDB.

1. is there any way to configure scylla manager to back up to local storage? (Or a network share). All of the documentation seem to point to an S3 bucket or azure/gcp based options.

2. If you have a 3 node cluster with RF3 do you still need to backup and restore all nodes via snapshot? or Can you use a snapshot from one node since it has all data on it (due to rf3).

[Karol_Kokoszka]

@stugatz21

is there any way to configure scylla manager to back up to local storage? (Or a network share). All of the documentation seem to point to an S3 bucket or azure/gcp based options.

Yes, you can configure the backup on Minio. See this Setup S3 compatible storage | ScyllaDB Docs.
You need to configure Minio the way that it stores to local filesystem then.

@stugatz21

If you have a 3 node cluster with RF3 do you still need to backup and restore all nodes via snapshot? or Can you use a snapshot from one node since it has all data on it (due to rf3).

The is no option to choose which nodes should participate in the backup (if it’s done via scylla-manager).
But you are right, if the keyspace is RF3 and the cluster is of 3 nodes size, then it should be enough to take the snapshot from a single node.