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From: Sam Stearns <[email protected]>
To: Serkan Akdemir <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Vallarapu <[email protected]>
Cc: Henry Ashu <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup --incremental
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:25:34 -0700
Message-ID: <CAN6TVjmJQfV7eq=pR8qLFBAMS8+hhRCcKx6rPhX5N00SyfzxAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <CAN6TVjnoZo9p+SKTEUBhe+QGsf2tbwUEJ21fXfd3s9W-TJ5wRg@mail.gmail.com>
	<[email protected]>

Thanks very much, Serkan.  We'll have a look.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM Serkan Akdemir <[email protected]> wrote:

> I created a script for incremental backup+merge on PostgreSQL 17+ It
> creates a full backup and later (next run) incremental backups. Incremental
> backups are merged to full backup with script, so you have always updated
> full backup. Disclaimer:
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> I created a script for incremental backup+merge on PostgreSQL 17+
> It creates a full backup and later (next run) incremental backups.
> Incremental backups are merged to full backup with script, so you have
> always updated full backup.
> Disclaimer: use it at your own risk.
>
> Simple usage is:
> # first backup should be full
> pg_backup.sh --mode=fulll
>
> # then inc
> pg_backup.sh --mode=fincremental
>
> medium-resources/pg_backup.sh at main · rdnkrkmz/medium-resources
> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh;
> github.com
> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh;
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> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh;
> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh;
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>
> On 28 Oct 2025, at 20:42, Sam Stearns <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> We're running version 17.6.  Would anyone be able to point me to, or
> provide, some sample use cases / scripts / usage to deploy a pg_basebackup
> full + --incremental strategy as a backup solution, please?
>
> This will be used temporarily as we are migrating to RDS soon which is why
> we're not going with pgBackRest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
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