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From	Don Seiler
Subject	Re: pgBackRest backup from standby
Date	February 20, 2018 02:41:45
Msg-id	CAHJZqBDi5wr+n8mDjtjZBAS9RgM6PQ6v9-2DkvtrCWx4RWYuTA@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
In response to	Re: pgBackRest backup from standby (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
Responses	Re: pgBackRest backup from standby
List	pgsql-general

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:17 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:

If pg_log is symlinked to PGDATA it will be copied. pg_xlog is not
copied in any backup.

So an external pg_log directory symlinked into $PGDATA will have its log contents copied?

I'm curious, why even copy the pg_log logs? They aren't needed for database restore or recovery.

Don.

From: Sasa Vilic
Date: 20 February 2018, 01:11:35
Subject: Re: Empty ./share/timezone/UTC and failure to set UTC as timezone

From: David Steele
Date: 20 February 2018, 02:53:29
Subject: Re: pgBackRest backup from standby