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From: Evan Rempel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Running rsync backups in pg15
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 17:47:17 +0000
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We use a similar approach, but instead of using rsync, we use our backup software directly which is an incremental forever tool. Allows backup of TB DBs in short minutes. Switching to pgbackrest is actually a step backwards for us.

But as the OP states, if you have to keep the postgresql session open for the pg_start_backup and the pg_stop_backup then we will have to do a significant architectual change.

Anyone know if there is a straight forward way to allows the pg_start_backup and the pg_stop_backup to be run in different sessions?


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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Sent: November 7, 2024 9:34 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Running rsync backups in pg15

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 11:35 AM Murthy Nunna <[email protected]<mailto:[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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