Snapshots

Available as of v0.8.4

Snapshots are performed on a per-collection basis and consist in a tar archive file containing the necessary data to restore the collection at the time of the snapshot.

This feature can be used to archive data or easily replicate an existing deployment.

Store snapshots

The target directory used to store generated snapshots is controlled through the configuration or using the ENV variable: QDRANT__STORAGE__SNAPSHOT_PATH=./snapshots.

You can set the snapshots storage directory from the config.yaml file. If no value is given, default is ./snapshots.

storage:
  # Specify where you want to store snapshots.
  snapshots_path: ./snapshots

Available as of v1.3.0

While a snapshot is being created, temporary files are by default placed in the configured storage directory. This location may have limited capacity or be on a slow network-attached disk. You may specify a separate location for temporary files:

storage:
  # Where to store temporary files
  temp_path: /tmp

Create snapshot

To create a new snapshot for an existing collection:

POST /collections/{collection_name}/snapshots

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("localhost", port=6333)

client.create_snapshot(
    collection_name="{collection_name}"
)

This is a synchronous operation for which a tar archive file will be generated into the snapshot_path.

Delete snapshot

Available as of v1.0.0

DELETE /collections/{collection_name}/snapshots/{snapshot_name}

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("localhost", port=6333)

client.delete_snapshot(
  collection_name="{collection_name}",
  snapshot_name="{snapshot_name}"
)

List snapshot

List of snapshots for a collection:

GET /collections/{collection_name}/snapshots

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("localhost", port=6333)

client.list_snapshots(
    collection_name="{collection_name}"
)

Retrieve snapshot

To download a specified snapshot from a collection as a file:

GET /collections/{collection_name}/snapshots/{snapshot_name}

Only available through the REST API for the time being.

Restore snapshot

There is a difference in recovering snapshots in single-deployment node and distributed deployment mode.

Recover during start-up

Single deployment is simpler, you can recover any collection on the start-up and it will be immediately available in the service. Restoring snapshots is done through the Qdrant CLI at startup time.

The main entry point is the --snapshot argument which accepts a list of pairs <snapshot_file_path>:<target_collection_name>

For example:

./qdrant --snapshot /snapshots/test-collection-archive.snapshot:test-collection --snapshot /snapshots/test-collection-archive.snapshot:test-copy-collection

The target collection must be absent otherwise the program will exit with an error.

If you wish instead to overwrite an existing collection, use the --force_snapshot flag with caution.

Recover via API

Available as of v0.11.3

Recovering in cluster mode is more sophisticated, as Qdrant should maintain consistency across peers even during the recovery process. As the information about created collections is stored in the consensus, even a newly attached cluster node will automatically create collections. Recovering non-existing collections with snapshots won’t make this collection known to the consensus.

To recover snapshot via API one can use snapshot recovery endpoint:

PUT /collections/<collection_name>/snapshots/recover

{
  "location": "http://qdrant-node-1:6333/collections/collection_name/snapshots/snapshot-2022-10-10.shapshot"
}

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("qdrant-node-2", port=6333)

client.recover_snapshot("collection_name", "http://qdrant-node-1:6333/collections/collection_name/snapshots/snapshot-2022-10-10.shapshot")

The recovery snapshot can also be uploaded as a file to the Qdrant server:

curl -X POST 'http://qdrant-node-1:6333/collections/collection_name/snapshots/upload' \
    -H 'Content-Type:multipart/form-data' \
    -F 'snapshot=@/path/to/snapshot-2022-10-10.shapshot'

Qdrant will extract shard data from the snapshot and properly register shards in the cluster. If there are other active replicas of the recovered shards in the cluster, Qdrant will replicate them to the newly recovered node to maintain data consistency.

Snapshots for the whole storage

Available as of v0.8.5

Sometimes it might be handy to create snapshot not just for a single collection, but for the whole storage, including collection aliases. Qdrant provides a dedicated API for that as well. It is similar to collection-level snapshots, but does not require collecton_name:

Create full storage snapshot

POST /snapshots

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("localhost", port=6333)

client.create_full_snapshot()

Delete full storage snapshot

Available as of v1.0.0

DELETE /snapshots/{snapshot_name}

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("localhost", port=6333)

client.delete_full_snapshot(
  snapshot_name="{snapshot_name}"
)

List full storage snapshots

GET /snapshots

from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient("localhost", port=6333)

client.list_full_snapshots()

Download full storage snapshot

GET /snapshots/{snapshot_name}

Restore full storage snapshot

Restoring snapshots is done through the Qdrant CLI at startup time.