Re: Basebackup fails without useful error message - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Koen De Groote
Subject Re: Basebackup fails without useful error message
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In response to Re: Basebackup fails without useful error message  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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> What is the complete command you are using?

The full command is:

pg_basebackup -h localhost -p 5432 -U basebackup_user -D /mnt/base_backup/dir -Ft -z -P

So output Format as tar, gzipped, and with progress being printed.

> Have you looked at the Postgres log?

> Is --verbose being used?

This is straight from the logs, it's the only output besides the % progress counter.

Will have a look at --verbose.

Regards,
Koen De Groote

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 5:01 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
On 9/29/24 07:48, Koen De Groote wrote:
> Having run a basebackup, I'm getting this output at the very end:
>
> pg_basebackup: child process exited with error 1
> pg_basebackup: removing contents of data directory "/mnt/base_backup/dir/"

What is the complete command you are using?

>
> Is there a way to get more information as to what exactly happened?

Have you looked at the Postgres log?

Is --verbose being used?

>
> I'd like to look into fixing this or doing whatever is required so that
> it doesn't happen again, but this just isn't enough info. Where do I
> start looking?
>
> Regards,
> Koen De Groote

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