Restore In my previous post about pgBackRest, we saw how to install and setup pgBackRest and make a backup of a PostgreSQL database with it. It was a very basic single server setup, only intended to get the hang of the tool. Such setups are not used in a production environment, as ...
pgBackRest runs on a dedicated backup server and stores repository on local or remote storage (NFS, SFTP, S3, Azure or GCS compatible object stores). Cron task active to take backups from the primary database cluster. Manually reconfigure cron task to take backup from another server. Create ...
pgBackRest is always able to restore a full backup directly. The full backup does not depend on any files outside of the full backup for consistency. Differential Backup : pgBackRest copies only those database cluster files that have changed since the last full backup. pgBackRest restores ...
Non-boolean options configured in pgbackrest.conf can be reset to default on the command-line by using the reset- prefix. This feature may be used to restore a backup directly on a repository host. Normally, pgBackRest will error because it can see that the database host is remote and r...
Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore Introduction pgBackRest aims to be a simple, reliable backup and restore solution that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads by utilizing algorithms that are optimized for database-specific requirements. pgBackRest v2.09 is the current stabl...
If I change archive-async=n on the database server and repeat the steps, there are no problems: 2023-02-12 14:16:59.410 UTC [18102] postgres@postgres LOG: restore point "pgBackRest Archive Check" created at 0/300001B0 2023-02-12 14:16:59.410 UTC [18102] postgres@postgres STATEMENT: ...
It can use the spool-path location for speeding up the restore of WAL to PostgreSQL. process-max This parameter specifies the parallelism and these many parallel processes will be executing. Each process will perform compression and transfer to make the command run faster. This parameter ...
restore restore a database cluster server pgBackRest server server-ping ping pgBackRest server stanza-create create the required stanza data stanza-delete delete a stanza stanza-upgrade upgrade a stanza start allow pgBackRest processes to run stop stop pgBackRest processes from running verify verify ...
pgBackRest is always able to restore a full backup directly. The full backup does not depend on any files outside of the full backup for consistency. Differential Backup : pgBackRest copies only those database cluster files that have changed since the last full backup. pgBackRest restores ...
Now, in case my main server fails i would like to restore from one of my backups to the pgBackRest Backup Server, start PostgreSQL and hopefully have a working database server again, with a little bit, but not significant downtime. What do you think? Would it be generally preferable to...