From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: PropAAS DBA <dba@propaas.com>
To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: virtualized snapshots and PITR
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:19:00 +0100
Message-ID: <1513239540.2442.22.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38c84302-270e-a2b6-648f-26ba798d8787@propaas.com>
References: <38c84302-270e-a2b6-648f-26ba798d8787@propaas.com>
PropAAS DBA wrote:
> we have a client using veeam to do vmware snapshots of the db servers,
> unfortunately as far as I can tell any restore of a veeam snapshot also
> restores the state, which means the db gets restored in an online state.
> As far as I know, once the db is online we cannot force it back into
> recovery mode to do a PITR recovery, correct?
>
> Anyone know of a way to do PITR recoveries with veeam?
It is fairly simple.
Before the snapshot, run
SELECT pg_start_backup('label of your choice', TRUE);
After the snapshot, run
SELECT pg_stop_backup();
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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