Backup, Restore, Recovery, and Replication

This section contains information on updates to backup and restore operations for Vertica Analytic Database 8.1.x.

Backup and Restore to Amazon S3

Vertica now has the ability to backup and restore to Amazon S3 Standard for Vertica instances hosted locally and on Amazon Web Services. For more information, refer to Creating Backups on Amazon S3.

Sample VBR Configuration Files

Vertica now includes sample configuration files that you can copy, edit, and deploy for your various vbr tasks. Vertica automatically installs these files at /opt/vertica/share/vbr/example_configs. For more information, refer to Sample VBR .ini Files.

Ability to View All Backups in a Location

The Vertica backup and restore utility now has the following additional parameters for the listbackup task:

For more information, refer to Viewing Backups.

For More Information

See Backing Up and Restoring the Database.