[Ideas] Availability of GPBackup_Manager in CB2.0 for better managing backups

[NadeemRajput-sys]

Description

Hi,

To enhance gpbackup monitoring and management can GPBackup_Manager utility be added in CB2.0 ?

It would be a good enhancement considering CICD and enhancing the availability.

Use case/motivation

It would be a good enhancement considering CICD and enhancing the availability as Business Continuity Planing (BCP)

Related issues

Backup validations, expiry and house keeping management

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

[tuhaihe]

Hi @robertmu do you have any ideas on it? Thanks!

AFAIK, gpbackup_manager is proprietary software included in the commercial edition of VMware Greenplum. It is not available in the current cloudberry-backup source code repository and thus is not part of the open-source offering.

Reference link: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/data-solutions/tanzu-greenplum-backup-and-restore/1-30/greenplum-backup-and-restore/utility_guide-ref-gpbackup_manager.html

[robertmu]

Hi @robertmu do you have any ideas on it? Thanks!

AFAIK, gpbackup_manager is proprietary software included in the commercial edition of VMware Greenplum. It is not available in the current cloudberry-backup source code repository and thus is not part of the open-source offering.

Reference link: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/data-solutions/tanzu-greenplum-backup-and-restore/1-30/greenplum-backup-and-restore/utility_guide-ref-gpbackup_manager.htm

I agree we should implement gpbackup_manager-like behavior to manage backup metadata and data. We can either create a new tool or add these features to cloudberry-backup.

Since we have already addressed the known bugs in cloudberry-backup, I think our current focus should be on getting a stable version released first. After that, we can consider implementing similar features.

[ostinru]

Backup validations, expiry and house keeping management

Hi, @NadeemRajput-sys! At our installation we are using https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g for Greenplum / Cloudberry. It can backup/restore clusters, manage backups in storage, support Point-in-Time-Recovery, etc.

There are couple known issues:

• documentation oriented to developers rather than users - fill an issue (in wal-g project) if you need some particular clarification.
• we haven't tested PAX storage yet

[tuhaihe]

Just found one project - https://github.com/woblerr/gpbackman. Not sure if it can meet the demand. I can ping the project maintainer to see how it work with cloudberry-backup.

[tuhaihe]

Update: @woblerr has helped add the gpbackman to the cloudberry-backup - apache/cloudberry-backup#79. Will include this great feature in the future release.

[NadeemRajput-sys]

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[tuhaihe]

Really very much appreciated @dianjin @.>@dianjin @.> Can you please add me to Apache Cloudberry mailing list

Hi, welcome to subscribe following the guide: https://cloudberry.apache.org/community/mailing-lists .

[NadeemRajput-sys]

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