Restore from a backup

This page describes Spanner restoration operations and explains how to restore a database. For more information about database restoration in Spanner, seeRestore overview.

You can restore a Spanner database by using the following:

• In the Google Cloud console.
• Using the Google Cloud CLI.
• Using the client libraries.
• Using the REST or RPC APIs.

Before you begin

• The gcloud CLI examples on this page make the following assumptions:

  • You have already set up gcloud CLI for use with Spanner. If you are new to using Google Cloud CLI with Spanner, see Getting started with Spanner using Google Cloud CLI.

  • You have configured Google Cloud CLI with your project. For example:

    gcloud config set core/project PROJECT_ID

  • You have an instance named test-instance and a database named example-db.

• To get the permissions that you need to restore a database from a backup, ask your administrator to grant you the Cloud Spanner Restore Admin (roles/spanner.restoreAdmin) IAM role on the instance.

  Note: IAM basic roles might also contain permissions to restore a database from a backup. You shouldn't grant basic roles in a production environment, but you can grant them in a development or test environment.

Restore a database from a backup

Console

1. Go to the Spanner Instances page in the Google Cloud console.

   Go to the Spanner Instances page

2. Click the instance containing the database to open its Overview page.

3. Click the database to open its Overview page.

4. In the navigation pane, click Backup/Restore.

5. Click the Actions button for your selected backup, then select Restore.

6. Fill out the form and click the Restore button.

To check the progress of the operation, see the progress indicator, as shown in the operations page:

If the operation takes too long, you can cancel it. For more information, see Cancel a long-running instance operation.

Note: If you are restoring a database from a backup or a copied backup, the restore operation appears in the instance containing the restored database, not the instance containing the backup.

gcloud

To restore a database, use gcloud spanner databases restore:

gcloud spanner databases restore --async \
  --destination-instance=test-instance --destination-database=example-db-restored \
  --source-instance=test-instance --source-backup=example-db-backup-6 \
  --encryption_type=google-managed-encryption

Usage notes:

• The command returns immediately because of the --async flag. Without the flag, the command will wait for the restore operation to complete.
• If the source and destination instances are different, they must have the same instance configuration.
• If the destination database already exists, the operation will fail.
• The possible values for encryption_type are USE_DATABASE_ENCRYPTION, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_ENCRYPTION, or CUSTOMER_MANAGED_ENCRYPTION. If you use CUSTOMER_MANAGED_ENCRYPTION, you must specify a kmsKeyName.

Client libraries

The following code sample restores a database from a given backup and waits for the restore operation (an operation with RestoreDatabaseMetadata) to complete. The restored database is created in the same instance as the backup. Once complete, the sample retrieves and prints some restore information from the database.

C++

void RestoreDatabase(google::cloud::spanner_admin::DatabaseAdminClient client,
                     std::string const& project_id,
                     std::string const& instance_id,
                     std::string const& database_id,
                     std::string const& backup_id) {
  google::cloud::spanner::Database database(project_id, instance_id,
                                            database_id);
  google::cloud::spanner::Backup backup(database.instance(), backup_id);
  auto restored_db =
      client
          .RestoreDatabase(database.instance().FullName(),
                           database.database_id(), backup.FullName())
          .get();
  if (!restored_db) throw std::move(restored_db).status();
  std::cout << "Database";
  if (restored_db->restore_info().source_type() ==
      google::spanner::admin::database::v1::BACKUP) {
    auto const& backup_info = restored_db->restore_info().backup_info();
    std::cout << " " << backup_info.source_database() << " as of "
              << google::cloud::spanner::MakeTimestamp(
                     backup_info.version_time())
                     .value();
  }
  std::cout << " restored to " << restored_db->name();
  std::cout << " from backup " << backup.FullName();
  std::cout << ".\n";
}

C#

using Google.Cloud.Spanner.Admin.Database.V1;
using Google.Cloud.Spanner.Common.V1;
using Google.LongRunning;
using System;

public class RestoreDatabaseSample
{
    public RestoreInfo RestoreDatabase(string projectId, string instanceId, string databaseId, string backupId)
    {
        // Create the DatabaseAdminClient instance.
        DatabaseAdminClient databaseAdminClient = DatabaseAdminClient.Create();

        InstanceName parentAsInstanceName = InstanceName.FromProjectInstance(projectId, instanceId);
        BackupName backupAsBackupName = BackupName.FromProjectInstanceBackup(projectId, instanceId, backupId);

        // Make the RestoreDatabase request.
        Operation<Database, RestoreDatabaseMetadata> response = databaseAdminClient.RestoreDatabase(parentAsInstanceName, databaseId, backupAsBackupName);

        Console.WriteLine("Waiting for the operation to finish");

        // Poll until the returned long-running operation is complete.
        var completedResponse = response.PollUntilCompleted();

        if (completedResponse.IsFaulted)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Database Restore Failed: {completedResponse.Exception}");
            throw completedResponse.Exception;
        }

        RestoreInfo restoreInfo = completedResponse.Result.RestoreInfo;
        Console.WriteLine(
            $"Database {restoreInfo.BackupInfo.SourceDatabase} was restored " +
            $"to {databaseId} from backup {restoreInfo.BackupInfo.Backup} " +
            $"with version time {restoreInfo.BackupInfo.VersionTime}");

        return restoreInfo;
    }
}

Go

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"regexp"

	database "cloud.google.com/go/spanner/admin/database/apiv1"
	adminpb "cloud.google.com/go/spanner/admin/database/apiv1/databasepb"
)

func restoreBackup(ctx context.Context, w io.Writer, db, backupID string) error {
	adminClient, err := database.NewDatabaseAdminClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer adminClient.Close()

	matches := regexp.MustCompile("^(.*)/databases/(.*)$").FindStringSubmatch(db)
	if matches == nil || len(matches) != 3 {
		return fmt.Errorf("Invalid database id %s", db)
	}
	instanceName := matches[1]
	databaseID := matches[2]
	backupName := instanceName + "/backups/" + backupID

	// Start restoring backup to a new database.
	restoreOp, err := adminClient.RestoreDatabase(ctx, &adminpb.RestoreDatabaseRequest{
		Parent:     instanceName,
		DatabaseId: databaseID,
		Source: &adminpb.RestoreDatabaseRequest_Backup{
			Backup: backupName,
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	// Wait for restore operation to complete.
	dbObj, err := restoreOp.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	// Newly created database has restore information.
	backupInfo := dbObj.RestoreInfo.GetBackupInfo()
	if backupInfo != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Source database %s restored from backup %s\n", backupInfo.SourceDatabase, backupInfo.Backup)
	}

	return nil
}

Java

static void restoreBackup(
    DatabaseAdminClient dbAdminClient,
    String projectId,
    String instanceId,
    String backupId,
    String restoreToDatabaseId) {
  BackupName backupName = BackupName.of(projectId, instanceId, backupId);
  Backup backup = dbAdminClient.getBackup(backupName);
  // Initiate the request which returns an OperationFuture.
  System.out.println(String.format(
      "Restoring backup [%s] to database [%s]...", backup.getName(), restoreToDatabaseId));
  try {
    RestoreDatabaseRequest request =
        RestoreDatabaseRequest.newBuilder()
            .setParent(InstanceName.of(projectId, instanceId).toString())
            .setDatabaseId(restoreToDatabaseId)
            .setBackup(backupName.toString()).build();
    OperationFuture<com.google.spanner.admin.database.v1.Database, RestoreDatabaseMetadata> op =
        dbAdminClient.restoreDatabaseAsync(request);
    // Wait until the database has been restored.
    com.google.spanner.admin.database.v1.Database db = op.get();
    // Get the restore info.
    RestoreInfo restoreInfo = db.getRestoreInfo();
    BackupInfo backupInfo = restoreInfo.getBackupInfo();

    System.out.println(
        "Restored database ["
            + db.getName()
            + "] from ["
            + restoreInfo.getBackupInfo().getBackup()
            + "] with version time [" + backupInfo.getVersionTime() + "]");
  } catch (ExecutionException e) {
    throw SpannerExceptionFactory.newSpannerException(e.getCause());
  } catch (InterruptedException e) {
    throw SpannerExceptionFactory.propagateInterrupt(e);
  }
}

Note: The old client library interface code samples for Java are archived in GitHub.

Node.js

// Imports the Google Cloud client library and precise date library
const {Spanner} = require('@google-cloud/spanner');
const {PreciseDate} = require('@google-cloud/precise-date');

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const projectId = 'my-project-id';
// const instanceId = 'my-instance';
// const databaseId = 'my-database';
// const backupId = 'my-backup';

// Creates a client
const spanner = new Spanner({
  projectId: projectId,
});

// Gets a reference to a Cloud Spanner Database Admin Client object
const databaseAdminClient = spanner.getDatabaseAdminClient();

// Restore the database
console.log(
  `Restoring database ${databaseAdminClient.databasePath(
    projectId,
    instanceId,
    databaseId
  )} from backup ${backupId}.`
);
const [restoreOperation] = await databaseAdminClient.restoreDatabase({
  parent: databaseAdminClient.instancePath(projectId, instanceId),
  databaseId: databaseId,
  backup: databaseAdminClient.backupPath(projectId, instanceId, backupId),
});

// Wait for restore to complete
console.log('Waiting for database restore to complete...');
await restoreOperation.promise();

console.log('Database restored from backup.');
const [metadata] = await databaseAdminClient.getDatabase({
  name: databaseAdminClient.databasePath(projectId, instanceId, databaseId),
});
console.log(
  `Database ${metadata.restoreInfo.backupInfo.sourceDatabase} was restored ` +
    `to ${databaseId} from backup ${metadata.restoreInfo.backupInfo.backup} ` +
    'with version time ' +
    `${new PreciseDate(
      metadata.restoreInfo.backupInfo.versionTime
    ).toISOString()}.`
);

Note: The old client library interface code samples for Node.js are archived in GitHub.

PHP

use Google\Cloud\Spanner\Admin\Database\V1\Client\DatabaseAdminClient;
use Google\Cloud\Spanner\Admin\Database\V1\RestoreDatabaseRequest;

/**
 * Restore a database from a backup.
 * Example:
 * ```
 * restore_backup($projectId, $instanceId, $databaseId, $backupId);
 * ```
 * @param string $projectId The Google Cloud project ID.
 * @param string $instanceId The Spanner instance ID.
 * @param string $databaseId The Spanner database ID.
 * @param string $backupId The Spanner backup ID.
 */
function restore_backup(
    string $projectId,
    string $instanceId,
    string $databaseId,
    string $backupId
): void {
    $databaseAdminClient = new DatabaseAdminClient();

    $backupName = DatabaseAdminClient::backupName($projectId, $instanceId, $backupId);
    $instanceName = DatabaseAdminClient::instanceName($projectId, $instanceId);

    $request = new RestoreDatabaseRequest([
        'parent' => $instanceName,
        'database_id' => $databaseId,
        'backup' => $backupName
    ]);

    $operationResponse = $databaseAdminClient->restoreDatabase($request);
    $operationResponse->pollUntilComplete();

    $database = $operationResponse->operationSucceeded() ? $operationResponse->getResult() : null;
    $restoreInfo = $database->getRestoreInfo();
    $backupInfo = $restoreInfo->getBackupInfo();
    $sourceDatabase = $backupInfo->getSourceDatabase();
    $sourceBackup = $backupInfo->getBackup();
    $versionTime = $backupInfo->getVersionTime()->getSeconds();
    printf(
        'Database %s restored from backup %s with version time %s' . PHP_EOL,
        $sourceDatabase, $sourceBackup, $versionTime
    );
}

Note: The old client library interface code samples for PHP are archived in GitHub.

Python

def restore_database(instance_id, new_database_id, backup_id):
    """Restores a database from a backup."""
    from google.cloud.spanner_admin_database_v1 import RestoreDatabaseRequest

    spanner_client = spanner.Client()
    database_admin_api = spanner_client.database_admin_api

    # Start restoring an existing backup to a new database.
    request = RestoreDatabaseRequest(
        parent=database_admin_api.instance_path(spanner_client.project, instance_id),
        database_id=new_database_id,
        backup=database_admin_api.backup_path(
            spanner_client.project, instance_id, backup_id
        ),
    )
    operation = database_admin_api.restore_database(request)

    # Wait for restore operation to complete.
    db = operation.result(1600)

    # Newly created database has restore information.
    restore_info = db.restore_info
    print(
        "Database {} restored to {} from backup {} with version time {}.".format(
            restore_info.backup_info.source_database,
            new_database_id,
            restore_info.backup_info.backup,
            restore_info.backup_info.version_time,
        )
    )

Note: The old client library interface code samples for Python are archived in GitHub.

Ruby

# project_id  = "Your Google Cloud project ID"
# instance_id = "Your Spanner instance ID"
# database_id = "Your Spanner database ID of where to restore"
# backup_id = "Your Spanner backup ID"

require "google/cloud/spanner"
require "google/cloud/spanner/admin/database"

database_admin_client = Google::Cloud::Spanner::Admin::Database.database_admin

instance_path = database_admin_client.instance_path project: project_id, instance: instance_id

db_path = database_admin_client.database_path project: project_id,
                                              instance: instance_id,
                                              database: database_id

backup_path = database_admin_client.backup_path project: project_id,
                                                instance: instance_id,
                                                backup: backup_id

job = database_admin_client.restore_database parent: instance_path,
                                             database_id: database_id,
                                             backup: backup_path

puts "Waiting for restore backup operation to complete"

job.wait_until_done!

database = database_admin_client.get_database name: db_path
restore_info = database.restore_info
puts "Database #{restore_info.backup_info.source_database} was restored to #{database_id} from backup #{restore_info.backup_info.backup} with version time #{restore_info.backup_info.version_time}"