Hi Jeevan,
The idea is very nice.
When Insert/update/delete and truncate/drop happens at various
combinations, How the incremental backup handles the copying of the
blocks?
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:12 PM Jeevan Chalke
<jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:38 PM Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 PM Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:15 PM Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> At what stage you will apply the WAL generated in between the START/STOP backup.
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>>> In this design, we are not touching any WAL related code. The WAL files will
>>> get copied with each backup either full or incremental. And thus, the last
>>> incremental backup will have the final WAL files which will be copied as-is
>>> in the combined full-backup and they will get apply automatically if that
>>> the data directory is used to start the server.
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>> Ok, so you keep all the WAL files since the first backup, right?
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> The WAL files will anyway be copied while taking a backup (full or incremental),
> but only last incremental backup's WAL files are copied to the combined
> synthetic full backup.
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>>>> Ibrar Ahmed
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>>> Jeevan Chalke
>>> Technical Architect, Product Development
>>> EnterpriseDB Corporation
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>> Ibrar Ahmed
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> Jeevan Chalke
> Technical Architect, Product Development
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
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Regards,
vignesh
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