How do I backfill historical partitions on BigQuery?
Run the pipeline with a start and end date and Bruin executes each partition against BigQuery, so backfills are one command instead of a script.
Command
bruin runDefined in
SQL + Python + YAML
Works with
BigQuery + Bruin CLI
What you get
Partitioned backfillsone commandwarehouse-native
How it works in code
$ bruin run --start-date 2026-01-01 ./pipeline # bigqueryRun bruin run and Bruin runs the graph against BigQuery in dependency order.
Related use cases
Orchestration by warehouse
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SQL and Python, one pipeline
Open source. Define assets, declare dependencies, run the graph with bruin run.