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ArangoDB backups, natively.

arangodump of one or all databases; the tool expands the password from the environment itself, so it never appears in argv.

What Xtic runs

arangodump
arangodump --server.password @XTIC_ARANGO_PW@ --all-databases true --output-directory /xtic/<run>/dump

Shown with placeholders. Credentials never appear on a command line: they reach the tool through the environment, a file descriptor or a short-lived file in memory.

Restore paths

  • arangorestore, creating the database or into a new name

Verification

Dump structure files present; collection counts after restore. Every artifact is also hashed, and the stored copy is read back and compared before the run counts as verified.

Version rule

Same or newer; split-file dumps from 3.12 cannot go to older versions.

Good to know

  • Hot backup is covered by a recipe
  • Licence and editions: 3.12 is BSL 1.1; Community Edition is capped at 100 GiB of data.

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