Hello, We are looking in to setting up backups for our greptime installation. WHat is the status of the v2 import/export functionality? Is it ready for production use?

It’s available in the nightly version now. It is a cli tool so you can use it in the nightly greptime binary. Docs are in progress: github.com/GreptimeTeam/docs/pull/2585

Is there a reason to prefer export/import for backups over file-level snapshots?

file-level snapshots

Do you mean copy the underlying files directly? Could you provide some examples for this feature? Maybe a similar product.

Sure, just any tool that stores the underlying files directly. (e.g. for local files, ZFS/btrfs snapshots, for S3 "versioning", for GCS "object versioning", etc.)

Import/Export is easy to implement and cross different cloud platform. We reuse import/export to backup for simplicity. We don’t have to care about the whether deployment is a standalone instance or a cluster.