Re: Running rsync backups in pg15 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Hi,

 

In PG14 and earlier, there is no requirement to keep database connection while rsync is in progress. However, there is a change in PG15+ that requires rsync to be while we have the same database session open that executes SELECT pg_backup_start('label'). This change requires a rewrite of existing scripts we have.

 

Currently (pg14):

 

                In bash script (run from cron)

1. psql Select pg_start_backup
2. rsync
3. psql Select pg_stop_backup

 

In pg15 and later:

 

In bash script (run from cron)

 

psql

Select pg_start_backup

! run-rsync-script

Select pg_stop_backup

 

It can be done, but it makes it ugly to check errors and so forth that occur in the rsync script.

 

Anybody found an elegant way of doing this?