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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 10:50:22 +0100
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On Wed, 2025-03-05 at 13:11 +0400, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 12:02=E2=80=AFAM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybert=
ec.at> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2025-03-02 at 09:27 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > > Is there any way to restore pg_basebackup ? Reading current documenta=
tion on
> > > pg_basebackup I could not find any "restore" word in it.
> >
> > Try looking for "recovery":
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving.html#BACKU=
P-PITR-RECOVERY
>
> 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 to
> 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.

A hyperlink might be a good idea.

I think that recovery is too complicted to be described on the
"pg_basebackup" reference page.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe