From: Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pg_basebackup with a twist?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:40:20 -0500
Message-ID: <f40ed60f-89b8-0b39-5c03-3ddbaca40b3c@vt.edu> (raw)
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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