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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Running rsync backups in pg15
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 12:34:22 -0500
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 11:35 AM Murthy Nunna <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> In PG14 and earlier, there is no requirement to keep database connection
> while rsync is in progress. However, there is a change in PG15+ that
> requires rsync to be while we have the same database session open that
> executes SELECT pg_backup_start('label'). This change requires a rewrite
> of existing scripts we have.
>
>
>
> Currently (pg14):
>
>
>
>                 In bash script (run from cron)
>
>    1. psql Select pg_start_backup
>    2. rsync
>    3. psql Select pg_stop_backup
>
>
>
> In pg15 and later:
>
>
>
> In bash script (run from cron)
>
>
>
> psql
>
> Select pg_start_backup
>
> ! run-rsync-script
>
> Select pg_stop_backup
>
>
>
> It can be done, but it makes it ugly to check errors and so forth that
> occur in the rsync script.
>
>
>
> Anybody found an elegant way of doing this?
>

Run pgbackrest instead of rsync,

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