This is mentioned at the end of the article, but perhaps deserves to be called out more loudly: > While CockroachDB was built to survive failures and prevent d

This is mentioned at the end of the article, but perhaps deserves to be called out more loudly: > While CockroachDB was built to survive failures and prevent data loss, we want to make sure every team, regardless of size, has the ability to survive any type of disaster. Backup and restore were built for large clusters that absolutely need to minimize downtime, but for smaller clusters, a simpler tool will work just fine. For this, we’ve built cockroach dump [0], which is available in CockroachDB Core. As you say, it's a hard line to draw, but our expectation is that any customer who has enough data that `cockroach dump` is infeasible is the kind of customer who is already quite familiar with enterprise licenses. [0]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/sql-dump.html https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/sql-dump.html