Backup Utility for Apache Cloudberry (Incubating)

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gpbackup and gprestore are Go utilities for performing Greenplum database backups, which are originally developed by the Greenplum Database team. This repo is a fork of gpbackup, dedicated to supporting Cloudberry.

Pre-Requisites

The project requires the Go Programming language version 1.21 or higher. Follow the directions here for installation, usage and configuration instructions. Make sure to set the Go PATH environment variable before starting the following steps.

Download & Build

1. Downloading the latest version:

go install github.com/apache/cloudberry-backup@latest

This will place the code in $GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/apache/cloudberry-backup.

2. Building and installing binaries

Make the gpbackup directory your current working directory and run:

make depend
make build

The build target will put the gpbackup and gprestore binaries in $HOME/go/bin. This will also attempt to copy gpbackup_helper to the Cloudberry segments (retrieving hostnames from gp_segment_configuration). Pay attention to the output as it will indicate whether this operation was successful.

make build_linux is for cross compiling on macOS, and the target is Linux.

make install will scp the gpbackup_helper binary (used with -single-data-file flag) to all hosts

Running the utilities

The basic command for gpbackup is

gpbackup --dbname <your_db_name>

The basic command for gprestore is

gprestore --timestamp <YYYYMMDDHHMMSS>

Run --help with either command for a complete list of options.

Validation and code quality

Test setup

Required for Cloudberry 1.0+, several tests require the dummy_seclabel Cloudberry contrib module. This module exists only to support regression testing of the SECURITY LABEL statement. It is not intended to be used in production. Use the following commands to install the module.

pushd $(find ~/workspace/cloudberry -name dummy_seclabel)
    make install
    gpconfig -c shared_preload_libraries -v dummy_seclabel
    gpstop -ra
    gpconfig -s shared_preload_libraries | grep dummy_seclabel
popd

Test execution

NOTE: The integration and end_to_end tests require a running Cloudberry instance.

• To run all tests except end-to-end (linters, unit, and integration), use make test.
• To run only unit tests, use make unit.
• To run only integration tests (requires a running Cloudberry instance), use make integration.
• To run end to end tests (requires a running Cloudberry instance), use make end_to_end.

We provide the following targets to help developers ensure their code fits Go standard formatting guidelines:

• To run a linting tool that checks for basic coding errors, use: make lint. This target runs gometalinter. Note: The lint target will fail if code is not formatted properly.

• To automatically format your code and add/remove imports, use make format. This target runs goimports and gofmt. We will only accept code that has been formatted using this target or an equivalent gofmt call.

Cleaning up

To remove the compiled binaries and other generated files, run make clean.

Code Formatting

We use goimports to format go code. See https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports The following command formats the gpbackup codebase excluding the vendor directory and also lists the files updated.

goimports -w -l $(find . -type f -name '*.go' -not -path "./vendor/*")

Troubleshooting

1. Dummy Security Label module is not installed or configured

If you see errors in many integration tests (below), review the Validation and code quality [Test setup](##Test setup) section above:

SECURITY LABEL FOR dummy ON TYPE public.testtype IS 'unclassified';
      Expected
          <pgx.PgError>: {
              Severity: "ERROR",
              Code: "22023",
              Message: "security label provider \"dummy\" is not loaded",

2. Tablespace already exists

If you see errors indicating the test_tablespace tablespace already exists (below), execute psql postgres -c 'DROP TABLESPACE test_tablespace' to cleanup the environment and rerun the tests.

    CREATE TABLESPACE test_tablespace LOCATION '/tmp/test_dir'
    Expected
        <pgx.PgError>: {
            Severity: "ERROR",
            Code: "42710",
            Message: "tablespace \"test_tablespace\" already exists",

How to Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License

Licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. For more details, please refer to the LICENSE.

Acknowledgment

Thanks to all the Greenplum Backup contributors, more details in its GitHub page.