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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup --incremental
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:16:50 -0400
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Note that pg_basebackup is single-threaded, and not encrypted.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM Sam Stearns <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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;
>> [image: apple-touch-icon-180x180-a80b8e11abe2.png]
>> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh;
>> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh;
>>
>>
>> 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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