Hi Ron,
On 9/4/18 7:41 AM, Ron wrote:
> On 03/09/2018 08:56 AM, David Steele wrote:
> [snip]
>>> About pgBarman, I like :
>>> - be able restore on a remote server from the backup server
>> This a good feature, and one that has been requested for pgBackRest. You
>> can do this fairly trivially with ssh, however, so it generally hasn't
>> been a big deal for people. Is there a particular reason you need this
>> feature?
>
> (Sorry to dredge up this old thread.)
>
> Do you just change the IP address of the "restore target"?
[I'll assume you wanted to hear about pgBackRest here since we discussed
it down thread.]
Generally restores are done from the database server, but if you want to
run a restore from the backup server you can run it via ssh:
ssh user@pg-server pgbackrest [...]
>
>>> - use replication slots for backingup wal on the backup server.
>> Another good feature. We have not added it yet because pgBackRest was
>> originally written for very high-volume clusters (100K+ WAL per day) and
>> our parallel async feature answers that need much better. We recommend
>> a replicated standby for more update-to-date data.
>
> Every N minutes you copy the WAL files to the backup server?
>
>
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net
