Cluster Backup

[tharshy]

Hi team, when its comes to backup on clusters, Can someone advice me what would be the best practice to do? I meant do we need to do the backup on all three running CORS or just doing it in current leader would be good enough? Thank you

[david_allen]

In the documentation, it says that you can do backups against either core nodes or read replicas:

https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/backup/backup-introduction/#backup-causal-cluster

It just depends on your workload. You don't need to target the backup specifically at the leader.

For further considerations please read that entire documentation section, it goes into a fair bit of detail about tradeoffs and how to plan for effective and safe backups.