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From: Tim Gerber <[email protected]>
To: Ghiurea, Isabella <[email protected]>
Cc: PGSQL ADMIN <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pgbackrest wiht arcchive mode off /no PITR configuration
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:44:42 -0500
Message-ID: <CAPKih1yy+ZTj=PHP72pgu283AP6WEH4FdoaHxrN5+1e7GtWBfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

If you aren't going to have archive_mode on, why not just
use pg_basebackup?  Not backing up archivelogs kind of defeats the purpose
of using pgbackrest in my opinion.

Best Regards,
Tim

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM Ghiurea, Isabella <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi List.
> I have a requirement to use pgabackrest to run ONLY full backups with no
> need need for PITR in PG cluster 17.5
>
> I tried several configuration options seems that archive_mode can not be
> set to "off" for pgbackrest to run,  is this correct ?
>
>
> I tried unsuccessfully : archive_mode = on with
> archive_command = '/bin/true'
>
> Second unsuccessfully configuration : archive_mode =on with
> archive_command='cp %p /tmp/pgbackrest-archive/%f'
>
>
> Can you suggest a working solution for my requirements ?
>
>

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