Hi Victor, I think I misunderstood, (sorry for the bothering)... just copy the files that in data and catalog folder to S3? Because I didn't find any document on backup\ restore vertica database with the Vertica catalog , data, and temp directories... Or you mean to use the data that we have on HDFS...

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It can be an option... what do you mean by using the original data files?
Just backing up the original data files (copy them) to S3?

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Chen

Thanks Victor for your answer. What about the free space on the cluster hosts for the backup? I found a HP article that saying: "HP Vertica recommends that each backup host has space for at least twice the database footprint size." … (https://my.vertica.com/docs/7.1.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/Administ...

No one... ?

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