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  2. NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide
  3. Introducing NetBackup for Greenplum
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NetBackup™ for Greenplum Administrator's Guide

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.

1 About the Greenplum Architecture

2 About the Greenplum Segments

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