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§ Databases · Key-value

Valkey backups, natively.

Valkey is handled by the same provider as Redis with its own tools: the RDB snapshot streamed to Xtic, with a BGSAVE fallback.

What Xtic runs

valkey-cli
valkey-cli --no-auth-warning --rdb -

Shown with placeholders. Credentials never appear on a command line: they reach the tool through the environment, a file descriptor or a short-lived file in memory.

Restore paths

  • Stop, place dump.rdb, start — in a maintenance window
  • Selected keys through a temporary server

Verification

RDB header magic; valkey-check-rdb in deep verification. Every artifact is also hashed, and the stored copy is read back and compared before the run counts as verified.

Version rule

Valkey reports redis_version 7.2.4 — Xtic reads the real format from the RDB itself, never from that field.

Good to know

  • Valkey 9 RDB files are readable by Valkey 8.1 only with relaxed version checks
  • Licence and editions: BSD — no gates.