Perform a user-directed backup for Greenplum
You can use the gpbackup command-line directly to start a Greenplum backup. NetBackup for Greenplum supports incremental backups from the incremental timestamps.
To perform a user-directed backup for Greenplum
- Create a
yamlfile from the example filenbgpbackup_config.yaml. - On the Greenplum coordinator host run the following command:
gpbackup --dbname database name --plugin-config yaml path
Where database name is the database that you want to back up and yaml path is the full path of the
yamlfile.Refer to the documentation for gpbackup for additional options.