On Sat, 2025-08-23 at 09:56 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I'm archiving WAL files and taking basebackups.
>
> At some point, when I'm ready to delete the oldest basebackup directory,
> I'll also of course need to run "pg_archivecleanup /Database/backups/wals mumble".
>
> The .backup file is not in the pg_wal.tar file, so how do I know which .backup file to use?
One thing you can use is the "backup_label" file in the base backup.
Its first line will look like
START WAL LOCATION: 0/B000028 (file 00000001000000000000000B)
You would have to extract the WAL file name from the text.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
