AW: broken backup trail in case of quickly patroni switchback andforth - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Zwettler Markus (OIZ)
Subject AW: broken backup trail in case of quickly patroni switchback andforth
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Msg-id 03dc57f7107f432d872bb00ddaa1a093@zuerich.ch
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In response to Re: broken backup trail in case of quickly patroni switchback andforth  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Responses Re: AW: broken backup trail in case of quickly patroni switchback andforth  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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I already asked the Patroni folks. They told me this is not related to Patroni but Postgresql. ;-)

- Markus



On 11/7/19 5:52 AM, Zwettler Markus (OIZ) wrote:
> we are using Patroni for management of our Postgres standby databases.
> 
> we take our (wal) backups on the primary side based on intervals and thresholds.
> our archived wal's are written to a local wal directory first and moved to tape afterwards.
> 
> we got a case where Patroni switched back and forth sides quickly, e.g.:
> 12:00h: primary - standby
> 12:05h: standby - primary
> 12:10h: primary - standby
> 
> we realised that we will not have a wal backup of those wal's generated between 12:05h and 12:10h in this scenario.
> 
> how can we make sure that the whole wal sequence trail will be backuped? any idea?

Probably best to ask the Patroni folks:

https://github.com/zalando/patroni#community

> 
> - Markus
> 
> 


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

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