Re: Review my steps for rollback to restore point - Mailing list pgsql-general

Chandran,

1. For PITR, you should use a tool like PgBackRest.  It handles all $PGDATA and WAL archiving.  It's multithreaded, too,
2. pg_restore is just for logical backups.
3. Streaming Replication is for hot standby, not backups.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM chandan Kumar <chandan.issyoga@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for your answer.  I want to clarify one more doubt.  Can PITR be achieved without applying Base Backup

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:

On Tue, 2025-03-04 at 14:26 +0530, chandan Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
>  I hope you are doing fine. I need your expertise on below case study.
> My current production environment is 2 node streaming replication hosted on
> Ubuntu VM 's on Azure. I have performed below steps on primary database.
> 1- Take Base backup
> 2-  Create a restore point using pg_create_restore_point()
> 3-  executed some DDL statement (CREATE VIEW,ADD INDEX,DROP INDEX)
> 4-  Perform rollback using restore point
>  To rollback, you must stop PostgreSQL, restore the last full backup, and apply
>  WAL files until the restore point:
> 1. Stop PostgreSQL Service
> 2. Restore from Full Backup (Using pg_basebackup)

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