How do I backfill historical partitions for a model?
Run the pipeline with a start and end date. Bruin executes the asset for each partition in the range, so backfills are one command.
Command
bruin runDefined in
SQL + Python + YAML
Works with
Bruin CLI + your warehouse
What you get
Dependency DAGschedulingbackfillsno separate orchestrator
How it works in code
$ bruin validate ./pipeline
$ bruin run --start-date 2026-01-01 ./pipelineRun bruin run and Bruin runs the whole graph in dependency order, on schedule.
Related use cases
Orchestration and scheduling
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SQL and Python, one pipeline
Bruin CLI and ingestr are on GitHub.
A demo walks through your own data.