Part 2 dives into the discovery phase of a real-world DR redesign, uncovering the constraints that matter most at scale—WAL volume, retention windows, and storage behavior. It shows why understanding these realities is critical before any recovery architecture can succeed.

As MPP PostgreSQL platforms grow, traditional logical backup strategies quietly stop meeting business expectations. Part 1 sets the stage by examining why multi-day backups and restores are no longer acceptable, and why disaster recovery needs to be rethought before scale makes change unavoidable.

Disaster Recovery (DR) isn’t just “take a backup.” At MPP scale, you need a repeatable end-to-end flow with minimal coordination and downtime. This post walks through the DBA Operations Kickstarter framework that wraps gpbackup, gpbackup_manager, and gprestore into a fully automated DR pipeline