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Subject: Re: pg_basebackup restore
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:43:17 +0100
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On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 14:48 +0400, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> > > > > Is there any way to restore pg_basebackup ? Reading current docum=
entation on
> > > > > pg_basebackup I could not find any "restore" word in it.
> > > >=20
> > > > Try looking for "recovery":
> > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving.html#B=
ACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY
> > >=20
> > > I mean it's a completely different page, but the pg_basebackup page
> > > has an examples section. Or please put a link to pg_basebackup page t=
o
> > > restore/recovery page (continuous-archiving.html), explaining how to
> > > restore a backup.
> > >=20
> > > But actually, would be nice to put to the examples section of the
> > > pg_basebackup page.
> >=20
> > A hyperlink might be a good idea.
>=20
> thank you.  If you can do anything about it, thanks again.

Looking again, there is such a link in the very first paragraph of
the "Description" section:

  The backup is taken without affecting other clients of the database,
  and can be used both for point-in-time recovery (see Section 25.3)
                                                       ^
                                                       the link that I mean
  and as the starting point for a log-shipping or streaming-replication
  standby server (see Section 26.2).

So I don't really see how that could be any better.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe