From: Gilberto Castillo <gilberto.castillo@etecsa.cu>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
Cc: 'Gustav Karlsson *EXTERN*' <gustav.karlsson@bekk.no>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Deleting old WAL-files
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:29:34 -0500 (GMT+5)
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> Gustav Karlsson wrote:
>> I am looking for a good method of determining what WAL-segments can be
>> deleted from our backup-
>> archive.
>>
>> We are using Postgresql 9.3 and do nightly basebackups along with
>> archiving of WAL-segments.
>>
>> We would like to prevent our backup-archive from growing forever, and
>> thus delete basebackups and WAL-
>> segments older than say 1 year.
>>
>> Is there a good way of finding the oldest WAL-segment needed for a given
>> basebackup? (If not, what is
>> the typical method for deleting old WAL-segments?)
>
> The backup contains a file "backup_label" which contains a line like
>
> START WAL LOCATION: 0/83000028 (file 000000010000000000000083)
>
> That is the oldest file needed for recovery.
>
> But a simple solution would be to keep WAL archives for one day more than
> your oldest
> base backup, that way you can never miss a WAL archive that you need.
See you:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgarchivecleanup.html
Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba
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