PG 16.10
(I'd rather use PgBackRest, but can't due to the fact that the immutable filesystem where we must store backup files doesn't support links. 😞)
Thus, I'm archiving WAL files and taking basebackups.
At some point, when I'm ready to delete the oldest basebackup directory, I'll also of course need to run "pg_archivecleanup /Database/backups/wals mumble".
The .backup file is not in the pg_wal.tar file, so how do I know which .backup file to use?
archive_command = '/usr/local/bin/postgres/wal_archive.sh "%p" "%f"'
$ cd /Database/backups/wals
$ dir *backup
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 341 2025-08-23 08:42:39 000000010000000200000023.00000028.backup
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 341 2025-08-23 09:24:48 000000010000000200000035.00000028.backup
$ dir /Database/backups/basebackup/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 113 2025-08-23 08:42:41 2025-08-23_08-42-36_full/
drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 113 2025-08-23 09:24:50 2025-08-23_09-24-43_full/
$ dir /Database/backups/basebackup/2025-08-23_09-24-43_full/
total 152896
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 612541 2025-08-23 09:24:48 backup_manifest
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 153057906 2025-08-23 09:24:48 base.tar.zst
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2847732 2025-08-23 09:24:48 pg_wal.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 37864 2025-08-23 09:24:50 schemata.tar.xz
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