Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:11:20 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu>,
	"pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
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Subject: Re: pb_basebackup process not working
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> From: "Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu>
>To: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 15:03
>Subject: [ADMIN] pb_basebackup process not working
> 
>So I changed it to use the plain format.  I now found that I cannot tar or gzip the output.  So my next try was to pipe it through gzip.
> 
>pg_basebackup --host=localhost --xlog-method=stream --write-recovery-conf | gzip ${BACKUPS_HOME}/${BACKUP_DATE_TIME}.gz
> 
>Now I get the error:
> 
>pg_basebackup: no target directory specified
> 

>What do I do next?

You can specify output to stdout if you use the tar format. So something like:


pg_basebackup --host=localhost --xlog-method=stream --write-recovery-conf --format=tar --pgdata - | gzip ${BACKUPS_HOME}/${BACKUP_DATE_TIME}.gz


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