BACKUP OPERATIONS FOR LARGE DATABASES USING LIVE SYNCHRONIZATION

摘要

Systems and methods for performing backup and other secondary copy operations for large databases (e.g., “big data”), such as the Greenplum database, are described. In some cases, the systems and methods may maintain a second instance of a source database (e.g., Greenplum) using live synchronization (e.g., “Live Sync”), which performs incremental replication between a virtual machine containing a large database (e.g., a virtual machine containing a Greenplum database) and a synced copy of the virtual machine.