From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup with a twist?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:11:12 -0500
Message-ID: <dbb38452-4325-ce25-fd8b-a93aef75f0d2@2ndquadrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f40ed60f-89b8-0b39-5c03-3ddbaca40b3c@vt.edu>
References: <f40ed60f-89b8-0b39-5c03-3ddbaca40b3c@vt.edu>
On 2/2/18 14:40, Ray Stell wrote:
> I have a fairly busy primary that I put a symlink in to move pg_xlog
> over to another I/O subsystem. I was going to build a standby with
> pg_basebackup running the command from the standby host. I thought
> maybe I could put the symlink in on the new standby, but no go:
> "pg_basebackup: directory "/database/test.basebackup/" exists but is not
> empty" as documented. Is the only way to do this to "fix" it up after
> the restore? I want to use the "-x" option in order to get the WAL
> during the backup. Just curious, my guess is I'll have to build the
> stby from a intermediate file. TIA.
pg_basebackup has a --waldir or --xlogdir (depending on version) option
for this, analogous to initdb.
--
Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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