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* pg_basebackup with a twist?
@ 2018-02-02 19:40 Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>
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From: Ray Stell @ 2018-02-02 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
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* Re: pg_basebackup with a twist?
@ 2018-02-02 21:11 Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
parent: Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>
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From: Peter Eisentraut @ 2018-02-02 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>; pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
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.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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