Fork and restore from Aiven for ClickHouse® backups
Choose a service backup to fork from and restore your Aiven for ClickHouse® service.
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You cannot fork Aiven for ClickHouse services to a fewer number of nodes. Reducing the number of nodes is only possible by switching the service plan from Business to Startup on a running service.
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Log in to the Aiven Console and go to your Aiven for ClickHouse service.
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Click Backups in the sidebar.
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Click Fork & restore.
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In the New database fork window, select the following:
- Backup to fork from
 - Service name and a project
 - Cloud provider and region
 - Service plan and additional storage
 
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Click Create fork.
 
Once the new fork service is running, you can set up your application's connection settings to point to this new fork service.
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