Subject: Re: Automate pg_basebackup in linux
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From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 12:11:10 -0500
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On 6/7/21 10:56 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Ron (ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com) wrote:
>> On 6/5/21 12:14 PM, SMAX Inbound wrote:
>>> is there any script to automate pg_basebackup in linux using cron job..
>>> i.e. shell script that will automate taking basebackup weekly, and
>>> removing previous backup and wal files once base backup is successfully
>>> completed...
>>>
>> If you know any shell scripting languages, such a script is easy to write.
>> (Are you saying that you don't know "shell"?)
> Writing a script that actually does everything correct is actually
> really hard, unfortunately.  I know, I tried (and using perl too, not
> just unix shell...).  Leveraging pg_basebackup makes it a bit easier as

That's what I meant: script to run pg_bb.


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