Back up universe YCQL data
You can use YugabyteDB Anywhere to back up your YugabyteDB universe YCQL data.
To schedule backups for a later time or as a recurring task, see Schedule universe YCQL data backups.
To immediately back up your YugabyteDB universe YCQL data, perform the following:
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Navigate to your universe and select Backups.
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Click Create Backup to open the Create Backup dialog shown in the following illustration:
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Complete the fields presented in the YCQL tab.
Notice that the contents of the Storage field list depends on your existing backup storage configurations.
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Click OK to start the requested backup immediately.
If the universe has encryption at rest enabled, data files are backed up as-is (encrypted) to reduce the computation cost of a backup and to keep the files encrypted. A universe key metadata file containing key references is also backed up.