Re: backup.old - Mailing list pgsql-general
Thank you very much. I read someplace if you run pg_start_backup twice the backup.old will be created, but there was not much beyond that and now I can't seem to find the reference.
From: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:25 PM
To: Steve Pribyl
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] backup.old
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:25 PM
To: Steve Pribyl
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] backup.old
Great, dur(rtfm), so is it save to delete the backup.old, if the db is not in backup mode.
I don't see anything that would cause "backup.old" to be linked to an active backup if there was one in progress...and as far as I can tell a successfully completed backup doesn't leave around any such file either. So it should be safe to delete regardless of what pg_is_in_backup returns. If that returns true then I would be concerned that something (or someone) else is messing with the backup/data directory and that something likely also introduced backup.old
David J.
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