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From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgresql Database cant start after restore using pgBackRest
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 08:55:05 -0500
Message-ID: <29c782b4-9ae3-364d-bca9-44f48c340aa3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484cbe3c-eb15-5327-df72-3338c17c7855@pgmasters.net>
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On 6/26/23 08:08, David Steele wrote:
> On 6/25/23 18:53, Deo Felix wrote:
>>   I am doing backup with pgbackrest in the database server every day at 
>> night, I was testing to restore the backup in another server, the restore 
>> was successfully however the database cant start
>>
>> *pgbackrest --stanza=data --delta --log-level-console=detail restore*
>
> Usually this happens when you promote a standby while the primary is still 
> running. The promotion of the standby will create a new timeline (in this 
> case 2) and then push WAL to the archive on this new timeline.
>
> When you restore, PostgreSQL will try to recover to timeline 2 (by 
> default) even though timeline 2 can't be reached from timeline 1 backups 
> that were made after the promotion.
>
> So, you need to instruct PostgreSQL to stay on timeline 1 rather than try 
> to switch to timeline 2. You can do that by setting 
> --target-timeline=current, i.e. stay on the timeline that was current when 
> the backup was made.

Did I not have this problem because I restored to a different pg-path?

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