Prepares the system for a backup by closing all open file handles after allowing current active jobs to complete. When the database is in backup mode, queries that result in a disk write operation will be blocked until backup mode has been completed by using GPUdb.admin_backup_end().
Parameters
options (dict of str to str) –
Optional parameters. The default value is an empty dict ( ).
Returns
A dict with the following entries–
info (dict of str to str) –
Additional information.