Re: Backup "Best Practices" - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: Backup "Best Practices"
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Msg-id o1ja7b$999$1@blaine.gmane.org
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In response to Re: Backup "Best Practices"  (Israel Brewster <israel@ravnalaska.net>)
Responses Re: Backup "Best Practices"  (Israel Brewster <israel@ravnalaska.net>)
Re: Backup "Best Practices"  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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Israel Brewster schrieb am 28.11.2016 um 23:50:
>>
>> pg_archivecleanup -n /mnt/server/archiverdir 000000010000000000000010.00000020.backup
>
> Ok, but where does that "000000010000000000000010.00000020.backup"
> come from? I mean, I can tell it's a WAL segment file name (plus a
> backup label), but I don't have anything like that in my WAL
> archives, even though I've run pg_basebackup a couple of times. Do I
> have to call something to create that file? Some flag to
> pg_basebackup? At the moment I am running pg_basebackup such that it
> generates gziped tar files, if that makes a difference.

The .backup file will be inside the tar file if I'm not mistaken


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