SHOW [BACKUPS|RESTORES]

This statement shows a list of all queued and running BACKUP and RESTORE tasks.

Use SHOW BACKUPS to query BACKUP tasks and use SHOW RESTORES to query RESTORE tasks. Both statements require SUPER privilege to run.

Synopsis

ShowBRIEStmt ::=
    "SHOW" ("BACKUPS" | "RESTORES") ShowLikeOrWhere?

ShowLikeOrWhere ::=
    "LIKE" SimpleExpr
|   "WHERE" Expression

Examples

In one connection, execute the following statement:

BACKUP DATABASE `test` TO 's3://example-bucket/backup-01/?region=us-west-1';

Before the backup completes, run SHOW BACKUPS in a new connection:

SHOW BACKUPS;

+--------------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+---------------------+-------------+------------+
| Destination                    | State   | Progress | Queue_Time          | Execution_Time      | Finish_Time | Connection |
+--------------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+---------------------+-------------+------------+
| s3://example-bucket/backup-01/ | Backup  | 98.38    | 2020-04-12 23:09:03 | 2020-04-12 23:09:25 |        NULL |          4 |
+--------------------------------+---------+----------+---------------------+---------------------+-------------+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

The first row of the result above is described as follows:

The connection ID can be used to cancel a backup/restore task via the KILL TIDB QUERY statement.

KILL TIDB QUERY 4;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Filtering

Use the LIKE clause to filter out tasks by matching the destination URL against a wildcard expression.

SHOW BACKUPS LIKE 's3://%';

Use the WHERE clause to filter by columns.

SHOW BACKUPS WHERE `Progress` < 25.0;

MySQL compatibility

This statement is a TiDB extension to MySQL syntax.

See also

• BACKUP
• RESTORE