export data reference

yb-voyager export data

The following page describes the following export commands:

export data

For offline migration, export data dumps data of the source database in the export-dir/data directory on the machine where yb-voyager is running.

For live migration (with fall-forward and fall-back), the export data command is an alias of export data from source which dumps the snapshot in the data directory and starts capturing the new changes made to the source database.

Syntax

Syntax for export data is as follows:

Usage: yb-voyager export data [ <arguments> ... ]

Syntax for export data from source is as follows:

Usage: yb-voyager export data from source [ <arguments> ... ]

Arguments

The valid arguments for export data are described in the following table:

Argument Description/valid options
--disable-pb Use this argument to disable progress bar during data export and statistics printing during streaming phase.
Default: false
Accepted parameters: true, false, yes, no, 0, 1
-e, ‑‑export‑dir Path to the export directory. This directory is a workspace used to store exported schema DDL files, export data files, migration state, and a log file.
--export-type Specify the migration type as snapshot-only (offline) or snapshot-and-changes (live, with fall-forward and fall-back).
Default: snapshot-only
-h, --help Command line help.
--oracle‑cdb‑name Oracle Container Database Name in case you are using a multi-tenant container database. Required for Oracle live migrations only.
--oracle-cdb-sid Oracle System Identifier (SID) of the Container Database that you wish to use while exporting data from Oracle instances. Required for Oracle live migrations only.
‑‑oracle‑cdb‑tns‑alias Name of TNS Alias you wish to use to connect to Oracle Container Database in case you are using a multi-tenant container database. Required for Oracle live migrations only.
--oracle-db-sid Oracle System Identifier you can use while exporting data from Oracle instances. Oracle migrations only.
--oracle-home Path to set $ORACLE_HOME environment variable. tnsnames.ora is found in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin. Not applicable during import phases or analyze schema. Oracle migrations only.
--oracle-tns-alias TNS (Transparent Network Substrate) alias configured to establish a secure connection with the server. Oracle migrations only.
--parallel-jobs Number of parallel jobs to extract data from source database.
Default: 4; exports 4 tables at a time by default. If you use BETA_FAST_DATA_EXPORT to accelerate data export, yb-voyager exports only one table at a time and the --parallel-jobs argument is ignored.
--send-diagnostics Enable or disable sending diagnostics information to Yugabyte.
Default: true
Accepted parameters: true, false, yes, no, 0, 1
--source-db-host Domain name or IP address of the machine on which the source database server is running.
--source-db-name Source database name.
--source-db-password Password to connect to the source database. If you don't provide a password via the CLI during any migration phase, yb-voyager will prompt you at runtime for a password. Alternatively, you can also specify the password by setting the environment variable SOURCE_DB_PASSWORD. If the password contains special characters that are interpreted by the shell (for example, # and $), enclose it in single quotes.
--source-db-port Port number of the source database server.
Default: 5432 (PostgreSQL), 3306 (MySQL), and 1521 (Oracle)
--source-db-schema Schema name of the source database. Not applicable for MySQL. For Oracle, you can specify only one schema name using this option. For PostgreSQL, you can specify a list of comma-separated schema names. Case-sensitive schema names are not yet supported. Refer to Importing with case-sensitive schema names for more details.
--source-db-type One of postgresql, mysql, or oracle.
--source-db-user Username of the source database.
--source-ssl-cert Path to a file containing the certificate which is part of the SSL <cert,key> pair.
--source-ssl-key Path to a file containing the key which is part of the SSL <cert,key> pair.
--source-ssl-crl Path to a file containing the SSL certificate revocation list (CRL).
--source-ssl-mode One of disable, allow, prefer(default), require, verify-ca, or verify-full.
--source-ssl-root-cert Path to a file containing SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate(s).
--start-clean Starts a fresh data export after clearing all data from the data directory.
Default: false
Accepted parameters: true, false, yes, no, 0, 1
--table-list Comma-separated list of the tables to export data. By default, table names in the list are case-insensitive. Enclose names in double quotes ("") to make them case-sensitive.
Table names can also be glob patterns containing wildcard characters, such as an asterisk (*) (matches zero or more characters) or question mark (?) (matches one character). To use a glob pattern for table names, enclose the list in single quotes ('').
For example, --table-list '"Products", order*'.
--exclude-table-list Comma-separated list of the tables to exclude during export. Table names follow the same convention as --table-list.
--table-list-file-path Path of the file containing the list of table names (comma-separated or line-separated) to export. Table names use the same convention as --table-list.
‑‑exclude‑table‑list‑file‑path Path of the file containing the list of table names (comma-separated or line-separated) to exclude while exporting data. Table names follow the same convention as --table-list.
-y, --yes Answer yes to all prompts during the export schema operation.
Default: false

Example

Offline migration

An example for offline migration is as follows:

yb-voyager export data --export-dir /dir/export-dir \
        --source-db-type oracle \
        --source-db-host 127.0.0.1 \
        --source-db-port 1521 \
        --source-db-user ybvoyager \
        --source-db-password 'password' \
        --source-db-name source_db \
        --source-db-schema source_schema

Live migration

An example for all live migration scenarios is as follows:

yb-voyager export data from source --export-dir /dir/export-dir \
        --source-db-type oracle \
        --source-db-host 127.0.0.1 \
        --source-db-port 1521 \
        --source-db-user ybvoyager \
        --source-db-password 'password' \
        --source-db-name source_db \
        --source-db-schema source_schema \
        --export-type "snapshot-and-change"

export data status

For offline migration, get the status report of an ongoing or completed data export operation.

Syntax

Usage: yb-voyager export data status [ <arguments> ... ]

Arguments

The valid arguments for export data status are described in the following table:

Argument Description/valid options
-e, ‑‑export‑dir Path to the export directory. This directory is a workspace used to store exported schema DDL files, export data files, migration state, and a log file.
-h, --help Command line help.

Example

yb-voyager export data status --export-dir /dir/export-dir

get data-migration-report

Note that this command is applicable for Live migrations only.

Provides a consolidated report of data migration per table among all the databases involved in the live migration. The report includes the number of rows exported, the number of rows imported, change events exported and imported (INSERTS, UPDATES, and DELETES), and the final row count on the database.

Syntax

Usage: yb-voyager get data-migration-report [ <arguments> ... ]

Arguments

The valid arguments for get data-migration-report are described in the following table:

Argument Description/valid options
-e, ‑‑export‑dir Path to the export directory. This directory is a workspace used to store exported schema DDL files, export data files, migration state, and a log file.
-h, --help Command line help.
‑‑source‑db‑password Password to connect to the source database. If you don't provide a password via the CLI during any migration phase, yb-voyager will prompt you at runtime for a password. Alternatively, you can also specify the password by setting the environment variable SOURCE_DB_PASSWORD. If the password contains special characters that are interpreted by the shell (for example, # and $), enclose it in single quotes.
‑‑source‑replica‑db‑password Password to connect to the source-replica database. Alternatively, you can also specify the password by setting the environment variable SOURCE_REPLICA_DB_PASSWORD. If the password contains special characters that are interpreted by the shell (for example, # and $), enclose it in single quotes.
--target-db-password Password to connect to the target YugabyteDB database. Alternatively, you can also specify the password by setting the environment variable TARGET_DB_PASSWORD. If you don't provide a password via the CLI during any migration phase, yb-voyager will prompt you at runtime for a password. If the password contains special characters that are interpreted by the shell (for example, # and $), enclose the password in single quotes.

Example

yb-voyager get data-migration-report --export-dir /dir/export-dir

export data from target

Note that this command is applicable for Live migrations only.

Exports new changes from the target YugabyteDB database to be imported to either the source database (for fall-back migration) or source-replica database (for fall-forward migration) to ensure synchronization between the source or source-replica database and the YugabyteDB database after the cutover.

Syntax

Usage: yb-voyager export data from target [ <arguments> ... ]

Arguments

The valid arguments for export data from target are described in the following table:

Argument Description/valid options
--disable-pb Use this argument to disable the progress bar during data export and printing statistics during the streaming phase.
Default: false
Accepted parameters: true, false, yes, no, 0, 1
-e, ‑‑export‑dir Path to the export directory. This directory is a workspace used to store exported schema DDL files, export data files, migration state, and a log file.
-h, --help Command line help for synchronize.
--send‑diagnostics Enable or disable sending diagnostics information to Yugabyte.
Default: true
Accepted parameters: true, false, yes, no, 0, 1
--table-list Comma-separated list of the tables to export data. By default, table names in the list are case-insensitive. Enclose names in double quotes ("") to make them case-sensitive.
Table names can also be glob patterns containing wildcard characters, such as an asterisk (*) (matches zero or more characters) or question mark (?) (matches one character). To use a glob pattern for table names, enclose the list in single quotes ('').
For example, --table-list '"Products", order*'.
--exclude-table-list Comma-separated list of the tables to exclude during export. Table names follow the same convention as --table-list.
--table‑list‑file‑path Path of the file containing the list of table names (comma-separated or line-separated) to export. Table names use the same convention as --table-list.
‑‑exclude‑table‑list‑file‑path Path of the file containing the list of table names (comma-separated or line-separated) to exclude while exporting data. Table names follow the same convention as --table-list.
--target-db-password Password to connect to the target YugabyteDB database. Alternatively, you can also specify the password by setting the environment variable TARGET_DB_PASSWORD. If you don't provide a password via the CLI, yb-voyager will prompt you at runtime for a password. If the password contains special characters that are interpreted by the shell (for example, # and $), enclose the password in single quotes.
--target-ssl-mode Specify the SSL mode for the target database as one of disable, allow, prefer (default), require, verify-ca, or verify-full.
--target-ssl-root-cert Path to a file containing the target YugabyteDB SSL Root Certificate.
-y, --yes Answer yes to all prompts during the export schema operation.
Default: false

Example

yb-voyager export data from target --export-dir /dir/export-dir \
        --target-db-password 'password'