cockroachdb / cockroachdb/cockroach

Easily differentiate a full backup from an incremental in the debug.zip and the DBConsole

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Description

TSE has noticed difficulty in easily identifying if a backup in our crdb_internal.jobs.txt is a full backup or an incremental backup. Customers also may have difficulty identifying backup type by looking in the DBConsole.

The request is for engineering / Disaster Recovery to come up with a way to easily identify full backups vs incremental backups in both a debug.zip and the DBConsole.

One example would be to have two different “types” of backups in the crdb_internal.jobs.txt file in a debug, “Backup - Full” and “Backup - Incremental”

Jira issue: CRDB-23679

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Research direction

Start by reviewing how backup jobs are represented in crdb_internal.jobs.txt within a debug.zip and how backups are shown in the DBConsole. Determine where full versus incremental backup information is available in each view. Done means both surfaces clearly distinguish the two backup types; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Assessment

Domain
databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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