Perform a Full Backup

  1. Run vbr, specifying the --config-file and --task backup options:
    /opt/vertica/bin/vbr --config-file vmart_backup.ini  --task backup
    Note: If your configuration file relies on a password file, you may need to copy your password file to each of your nodes to run vbr.
  2. Verify that vbr completes without errors, and then make a snapshot of the backup volume on each of your nodes.
  3. Save your admintools configuration file, which has information on your node IP addresses and mapping:
    /opt/vertica/conf/admintools.conf

The snapshots, your backup configuration file, and your admintools configuration file make up your complete initial backup. Later in time, you may make an incremental backup by repeating steps 1 and 2.

Note:
  • Incremental snapshots can take different amounts of time compared to the initial snapshot, because only the differences from the first snapshot are saved. If the differences are few, subsequent backups and snapshots can be quite fast.
  • Snapshots are taken asynchronously. Therefore, you can continue to write the next backup as the previous snapshot completes.

For more information on EBS snapshots, visit the AWS documentation.

See the Creating Full and Incremental Backups section of the Vertica documentation for additional information on incremental backups.