gpdr Utility Reference

Backup and restore a database cluster’s data and WAL files to a specific point in time.

Note

Greenplum Disaster Recovery relies on the gp_pitr extension, which is automatically installed in Greenplum Database 6.22 and later. See the gp_pitr reference page for details.

Synopsis

gpdr <command> [<options>]

gpdr backup
gpdr configure
gpdr create-restore-point
gpdr expire
gpdr info
gpdr monitor
gpdr promote
gpdr restore

gpdr --debug

gpdr {help | -h | --help}

gpdr --quiet

gpdr --verbose

Description

The gpdr utility lets you back up, and restore to a specific point in time, a cluster's physical data and WAL archive files. You may back up to four types of systems: Amazon S3, Posix-based systems (NFS), Google Cloud Platform, or a local filesystem. The utility supports both full and incremental backups, and allows you to specify named restore points that govern from what point in time data must be restored from the archived data.

It includes a number of commands:

Command	Description
backup	Back up all of the segments of the database cluster.
configure	Configure the database cluster for backup or restore.
create-restore-point	Create an explicit restore point.
expire	Designate a backup as expired and delete it, by setting the backup's expiration date to now
help	Display command help.
info	Retrieve information about all backups, restored backups, and restore points in the repository.
monitor	Monitor and report on backup progress.
promote	Trigger the promotion of the recovery cluster and make it queryable. Promotion is a prerequisite to designating the recovery cluster as the primary cluster.
restore	Restore all database segments using the specified backup and restore point.

Options

--debug

gpdr prints both verbose and debugging-related messages.

-h | --help

Displays a help message for the gpdr command. For help on a specific gpdr command, enter gpdr [command] --help. For example:

$ gpdr expire --help

--quiet

gpdr suppresses non-warning, non-error log messages.

--verbose

gpdr prints verbose log messages.

Examples

Show help for a specific command

gpdr create-restore-point --help

See Also

gpdr backup, gpdr configure, gpdr create-restore-point, gpdr expire, gpdr info, gpdr monitor, gpdr promote, gpdr restore