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pingcap/tidb

This system is a comprehensive database backup and restore toolkit designed for TiDB, encompassing the BR (Backup/Restore) and Lightning utilities. It provides robust capabilities for full, incremental, and point-in-time recovery, supporting diverse storage backends like S3, GCS, and EBS, while ensuring data integrity through checksums and encryption. The system also includes performance benchmarking tools and a suite of static analysis linters to enforce code quality and security standards across the codebase.

65.7

Adequate · 6 August 2026

880k

lines of production code

Go

primary language

18

bus factor · 1,107 authors in all

2

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How it got here

2015–2021 · BR and Dumpling integration and hardening

This period focused on integrating Dumpling and the BR tool into the TiDB codebase, establishing their standalone module structures and build systems. It involved extensive refactoring of BR and Dumpling components, alongside the addition of comprehensive integration tests to ensure reliability and compatibility across various storage backends and edge cases.

105 changes

2022–2023 · BR and build system enhancements

This period focused on expanding the BR (Backup and Restore) module with new features such as online restore, EBS snapshot support, and log backup checkpointing, alongside comprehensive integration tests for various edge cases. Simultaneously, the project established a robust Bazel-based build infrastructure and a comprehensive Go linter framework to enforce code quality and security standards.

56 changes

2024–2026 · BR architecture refactoring and PITR enhancements

This period focused on restructuring the BR module by extracting distinct components like the import client, log client, and snapshot client into dedicated packages for better maintainability. It also introduced significant features for Point-in-Time Recovery, including checkpoint management, table filtering, and CRR progress tracking, alongside comprehensive integration tests to validate these new capabilities.

28 changes

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 6 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit bff1263528 — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.19. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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