> On Feb 25, 2019, at 11:24, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Aren't they going to need to make a change for v12 now anyway?
>
> Hopefully they're regularly testing their backups by doing a restore of
> them, and dropping a recovery.conf into the directory of a v12 system
> after restore will do exactly nothing and they'll get errors complaining
> about how they need to provide a restore_command.
It varies with the installation, but backups are 100% - epsilon automated, while restores are very frequently done via
runbook. Changing a runbook is institutionally less contentious, and the change is more or less "drop the file into
mumble/conf.drather than mumble", which is less of a break.
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