gpbackup-s3-plugin

Using the S3 Storage Plugin with gpbackup and gprestore

The S3 plugin lets you use an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) location to store and retrieve backups when you run gpbackup and gprestore.

To use the S3 plugin, you specify the location of the plugin and the AWS login and backup location in a configuration file. When you run gpbackup or gprestore, you specify the configuration file with the option --plugin-config.

If you perform a backup operation with the gpbackup option --plugin-config, you must also specify the --plugin-config option when you restore the backup with gprestore.

The S3 plugin supports both AWS and custom storage servers that implement the S3 interface.

Pre-Requisites

The project requires the Go Programming language version 1.13 or higher. Follow the directions here for installation, usage and configuration instructions.

Downloading

go get github.com/greenplum-db/gpbackup-s3-plugin/...

Building and installing binaries

Switch your current working directory to the above gpbackup_s3_plugin source directory

Build

make build

This will build the gpbackup_s3_plugin binary in $HOME/go/bin.

Install

make install

This will install the gpbackup_s3_plugin binary on all the segments hosts. Note that GPDB must be sourced for this to work.

Test

make test

Runs the unit tests

S3 Storage Plugin Configuration File Format

The configuration file specifies the absolute path to the gpbackup_s3_plugin executable, AWS connection credentials, and S3 location.

The configuration file must be a valid YAML document in the following format:

executablepath: <absolute-path-to-gpbackup_s3_plugin>
options: 
  region: <aws-region>
  endpoint: <s3-endpoint>
  aws_access_key_id: <aws-user-id>
  aws_secret_access_key: <aws-user-id-key>
  bucket: <s3-bucket>
  folder: <s3-location>
  encryption: [on|off]
  http_proxy: <http-proxy>

executablepath is the absolute path to the plugin executable (eg: use the fully expanded path of $GPHOME/bin/gpbackup_s3_plugin).

Below are the s3 plugin options

Example

This is an example S3 storage plugin configuration file that is used in the next gpbackup example command. The name of the file is s3-test-config.yaml.

executablepath: $GPHOME/bin/gpbackup_s3_plugin
options: 
  region: us-west-2
  aws_access_key_id: test-s3-user
  aws_secret_access_key: asdf1234asdf
  bucket: gpdb-backup
  folder: test/backup3

This gpbackup example backs up the database demo using the S3 storage plugin. The absolute path to the S3 storage plugin configuration file is /home/gpadmin/s3-test.

gpbackup --dbname demo --single-data-file --plugin-config /home/gpadmin/s3-test-config.yaml

The S3 storage plugin writes the backup files to this S3 location in the AWS region us-west-2.

gpdb-backup/test/backup3/backups/YYYYMMDD/YYYYMMDDHHMMSS/

Notes

The S3 storage plugin application must be in the same location on every Greenplum Database host. The configuration file is required only on the coordinator host.

Using Amazon S3 to back up and restore data requires an Amazon AWS account with access to the Amazon S3 bucket. The Amazon S3 bucket permissions required are Upload/Delete for the S3 user ID that uploads the files and Open/Download and View for the S3 user ID that accesses the files.