# Asbackup nodelist

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/asbackup-nodelist/2365>\
**Category:** asbackup & asrestore\
**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/asbackup-nodelist/2365 "2016-01-08T17:59:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jasingjo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jasingjo](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/jasingjo)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/asbackup-nodelist/2365/1 "2016-01-08T17:59:04Z")

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Hi,

Our 7 node cluster is sitting at 2.5TB and am wanting to perform backups on a smaller scale. When using nodelist on asbackup, how will this affect asrestore? (i.e. doing a backup on a single node at a time).

When restoring, do I simply run asrestore using all the separate backups? Or will my restore be limited to one of the node backups.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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**Author:** ![kporter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/kporter/32/515_2.png) [@kporter](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/kporter)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/asbackup-nodelist/2365/2 "2016-01-08T18:29:00Z")

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> [@jasingjo](#):
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> this affect asrestore?

No problem, format is the same.

> [@jasingjo](#):
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> When restoring, do I simply run asrestore using all the separate backups?

Yes.

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**Author:** ![jasingjo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jasingjo](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/jasingjo)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/asbackup-nodelist/2365/3 "2016-01-08T18:42:29Z")

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Thanks for the help kporter!

This is quite helpful as i won’t need to have a massive disk-store to do one lumped backup 😃