A guide for managing backups in Zilliz Cloud, a hosted service for Milvus vector databases. It covers backups for clusters or individual collections, which are groups of stored records.

Use it to create and list backups, view or delete them, export one to storage, or restore it into a new cluster.

It gives you the commands needed to find, inspect, remove, export, and restore database backups without memorising the Zilliz command-line interface.

backup — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by zilliztech: A guide for managing backups in Zilliz Cloud, a…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin/backup

Any agent

npx skills add zilliztech/zilliz-plugin --skill backup

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install zilliz, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 2 commands.

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README.md

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 833 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00032	$0.00833
Opus 5	$0.00016	$0.00417
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.00167
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00083

Measured yesterday against content hash f9a4003a9dd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/zilliz/skills/backup/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prerequisites

CLI installed and logged in (see setup skill).
No cluster context required -- backup operations use --cluster-id directly.

Commands Reference

Create a Backup

zilliz backup create --cluster-id <cluster-id>
# Optional:
#   --database <database-name>
#   --collection <collection-name>
#   --backup-type <CLUSTER|COLLECTION>
# Or use raw JSON: --body '{...}'

List Backups

zilliz backup list
# Optional:
#   --project-id <filter-by-project-id>
#   --cluster-id <filter-by-cluster-id>
#   --creation-method <MANUAL|AUTO>
#   --backup-type <CLUSTER|COLLECTION>
# Pagination: --page-size <n> --page <n>
# Fetch all pages: --all

Describe a Backup

zilliz backup describe --cluster-id <cluster-id> --backup-id <backup-id>

Delete a Backup

zilliz backup delete --cluster-id <cluster-id> --backup-id <backup-id-to-delete>

Export a Backup

zilliz backup export \
  --cluster-id <cluster-id> \
  --backup-id <backup-id> \
  --integration-id <storage-integration-id>
# Optional: --directory <directory>

Restore to a New Cluster

zilliz backup restore-cluster \
  --cluster-id <source-cluster-id> \
  --backup-id <backup-id-to-restore> \
  --project-id <target-project-id> \
  --name <new-cluster-name> \
  --cu-size <compute-units-for-new-cluster> \
  --collection-status <KEEP|RELEASE>
# Optional: --restore-version-policy <LATEST|ORIGINAL>

Restore Specific Collections

zilliz backup restore-collection \
  --cluster-id <source-cluster-id> \
  --backup-id <backup-id> \
  --dest-cluster-id <destination-cluster-id>
# Or use raw JSON: --body '{"collections": [{"source": "col1", "target": "col1_restored"}]}'

Describe Backup Policy

zilliz backup describe-policy --cluster-id <cluster-id>

Update Backup Policy

zilliz backup update-policy --cluster-id <cluster-id> --auto-backup <true|false>
# Optional:
#   --frequency <frequency>
#   --start-time <start-time>
#   --retention-days <days-to-retain-backups>
# Or use raw JSON: --body '{...}'

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

yesterday Changed · +1 lines f9a4003a9dd4
5d ago First seen · 112 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A f5028072ffad

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backup is a skill published in the GitHub repository zilliztech/zilliz-plugin (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 833 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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