NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide
- Introducing NetBackup for Greenplum
- Installing NetBackup for Greenplum
- Configuring NetBackup for Greenplum
- About NetBackup for Greenplum configuration
- About configuring a backup policy for Greenplum
- About the backup script for NetBackup for Greenplum
- Best practices for Greenplum backups
- Configuration options for backup jobs
- Use of the --jobs option or backup streams and the effect on NetBackup jobs and throttling options
- The nbgpbackup_config.yaml file
- About permissions for NetBackup for Greenplum log files
- Perform a manual backup
- Using NetBackup for Greenplum
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for Greenplum
- Appendix A. Register authorized locations
NetBackup for Greenplum terminology
Table: Terminology for Greenplum shows the terms that might be new to a Greenplum database administrator or a NetBackup administrator.
Table: Terminology for Greenplum
Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
Coordinator | The entry to the Greenplum Database system. It accepts client connections and SQL queries and distributes work to the segment instances. [1] |
Segments | The independent PostgreSQL databases that each store a portion of the data and perform the majority of the query processing. [2] |
Segment_hosts | The host that contain the segments. |
Greenplum gpbackup and gprestore utilities | These Greenplum utilties that are used for Greenplum database backups and database restores. The gpbackup command is used to back up. The gprestore command is used to restore. |
Greenplum backup scripts | The shell scripts that control the NetBackup for Greenplum operations. |