Re: perl path issue - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 5/10/19 6:49 PM, Prakash Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Hi Adrian,

If I am following the below correctly you have EDB Postgres and 
pgBackRest running together on the prod server, correct?

If so what was done different/is different on the dev server?

> 
> 1) How was the production Postgres installed(EDB, native packages) and
> on what OS?
> 
> prod has been installed edb standard edition .run file and os CENTOS 7.5
> 
> 2) The dev Postgres is the one installed using EDB installer, correct?
> 
> yes
> 
> 3) Define working fine. In other words where you/are you using a backup
> method other then pgBackRest on the production and dev server?
> 
> Please find prod config file and backup details,
> 
> ==> cat /etc/pgbackrest.conf
> [global]
> repo1-path=/pgBACKUP/A4_sydcosafpp001
> retention-diff=3
> retention-full=1
> retention-archive=2
> start-fast=y
> process-max=12
> archive-async=y
> 
> 
> [global:archive-push]
> process-max=4
> 
> [A4_sydcosafpp001]
> pg1-path=/Postgres/pgDATA/data
> postgres@sydcosafpp001.enterprisenet.org:/home/postgres
> ==> cd /pgBACKUP/A4_sydcosafpp001/
> archive/ backup/
> postgres@sydcosafpp001.enterprisenet.org:/home/postgres
> ==> cd /pgBACKUP/A4_sydcosafpp001/backup/A4_sydcosafpp001/
> postgres@sydcosafpp001.enterprisenet.org:/pgBACKUP/A4_sydcosafpp001/backup/A4_sydcosafpp001
> ==> ls -lrth
> total 114K
> drwxr-x---. 4 postgres postgres   44 Jan  7 01:08 backup.history
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May  4 21:30 20190504-190001F
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May  5 19:41 
> 20190504-190001F_20190505-190002I
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May  6 20:28 
> 20190504-190001F_20190506-190002I
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May  7 20:26 
> 20190504-190001F_20190507-190004I
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May  8 20:28 
> 20190504-190001F_20190508-190002I
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May  9 20:32 
> 20190504-190001F_20190509-190001I
> drwxr-x---. 3 postgres postgres   96 May 10 20:32 
> 20190504-190001F_20190510-190001I
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 postgres postgres   33 May 10 20:32 latest -> 
> 20190504-190001F_20190510-190001I
> -rw-r-----. 1 postgres postgres 5.7K May 10 20:32 backup.info 
> <http://backup.info>
> -rw-r-----. 1 postgres postgres 5.7K May 10 20:32 backup.info.copy
> 
> 
> 
> 4) When you say single database are you talking about a particular
> database in the Postgres cluster or the entire cluster?
> 
> we need restore for single database for single cluster.
> 
> 5) Why is pgBackRest essential to this? In other words why not use the
> Postgres pg_dump/pg_restore tools?
> 
> pgbackrest tool need for backup and restore larger databases.
> if suppose am using pg_dump and restore they wont accept it and taking 
> too much time using parallel option also so we use for pgbackrest.
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 9:44 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com 
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 5/10/19 7:50 AM, Prakash Ramakrishnan wrote:
>      > Hi Adrian,
>      >
>      > Production backup working fine now and previously dev server also
>      > working fine.
>      >
>      > Now the business team wants to restore the single database using
>      > pgbackrest tool so we have setup the pgbackrest.conf file is like to
>      > point prod .
> 
> 
>     The above is not much to go on. So a list of questions below. Please
>     answer them all, thanks:
> 
>     1) How was the production Postgres installed(EDB, native packages) and
>     on what OS?
> 
>     2) The dev Postgres is the one installed using EDB installer, correct?
> 
>     3) Define working fine. In other words where you/are you using a backup
>     method other then pgBackRest on the production and dev server?
> 
>     4) When you say single database are you talking about a particular
>     database in the Postgres cluster or the entire cluster?
> 
>     5) Why is pgBackRest essential to this? In other words why not use the
>     Postgres pg_dump/pg_restore tools?
> 
> 
>     As to below, this more then a Perl issue it is a package
>     incompatibility
>     issue.
> 
> 
>      >
>      > and directly  restore the backup from prod so thats why not able
>     to do
>      > some perl issue .
>      >
>      > database size is huge so they giving pressure and below is the
>     config file,
>      >
>      > ==> cat /etc/pgbackrest.conf
>      > #[global]
>      > #repo1-path=/Postgres/pgBACKUP/A4_sydcosausd001
>      > #retention-diff=4
>      > #retention-full=4
>      > #retention-archive=2
>      > #start-fast=y
>      > #process-max=4
>      > #archive-async=y
>      >
>      >
>      > #[global:archive-push]
>      > #process-max=4
>      >
>      > #[A4_sydcosausd001]
>      > #db-path=/Postgres/pgDATA/data
>      >
>      > *
>      > *
>      > *[global]*
>      > *repo1-host=sydcosafpp001.enterprisenet.org
>     <http://sydcosafpp001.enterprisenet.org>
>      > <http://sydcosafpp001.enterprisenet.org>*
>      > *repo1-host-user=postgres*
>      > *repo1-host-config=/etc/pgbackrest.conf*
>      > *repo1-path=/pgBACKUP/A4_sydcosafpp001/backup/A4_sydcosafpp001*
>      > *
>      > *
>      > *[A4_sydcosafpp001]*
>      > *pg1-path=/Postgres/prakash_pgbackrest*
>      > postgres@sydcosausd001.enterprisenet.org:/home/postgres
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 8:15 PM Adrian Klaver
>     <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>      > <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>     <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     On 5/10/19 7:36 AM, Prakash Ramakrishnan wrote:
>      >      > Hi Adrian,
>      >      >
>      >      > I did the installation for like ,
>      >      >
>      >      > postgresql-10.4-1-linux-x64.run file.
>      >      >
>      >      > pgbackrest - yum install
>      >      >
>      >
>     https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.6/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat96-9.6-3.noarch.rp
>      >
>      >      >
>      >   
>       <https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.6/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat96-9.6-3.noarch.rpm>m
>      >      >
>      >      >
>      >      > yum install pgbackrest
>      >
>      >     As explained upstream that is not going to work. The package
>     YUM is
>      >     installing is assuming that it will be working with Postgres
>     installed
>      >     from packages in the same repo. That is not the case. You
>     might be able
>      >     to download the pgBackrest source and build it pointing at
>     the Perl in
>      >     the EDB install, but I have no idea how to make that happen.
>      >      >
>      >      >
>      >      > now what is the problem means we have to trying restore the
>      >     backup prod
>      >      > to dev server.
>      >      >
>      >
>      >     So was the prod backup taken with pgBackRest?
>      >
>      >     --
>      >     Adrian Klaver
>      > adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>     <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > --
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks,
>      > Prakash.R
>      > PostgreSQL - Offshore DBA support TCS / Nielsen Infrastructure
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> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Adrian Klaver
>     adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Prakash.R
> PostgreSQL - Offshore DBA support TCS / Nielsen Infrastructure Team On 
> call : +91-8939599426


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