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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):
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>
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> In bash script (run from cron)
>
> 1. psql Select pg_start_backup
> 2. rsync
> 3. psql Select pg_stop_backup
>
>
>
> In pg15 and later:
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>
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> In bash script (run from cron)
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> psql
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> Select pg_start_backup
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> ! run-rsync-script
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> Select pg_stop_backup
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> It can be done, but it makes it ugly to check errors and so forth that
> occur in the rsync script.
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> Anybody found an elegant way of doing this?
>
Run pgbackrest instead of rsync,
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