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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: Colin 't Hart <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Move pgBackrest repo?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:29:29 -0500
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM Colin 't Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> What is the best way to move a pgBackrest repo?
>

* rsync to get things mostly copied
* use 'pgbackrest stop' to prevent it from running
* verify no pgbackrest processes still going
* update the conf file to point to the new dir
* final rsync
* rename the old repo dir so nothing writes to it by accident
* use 'pgbackrest start'

Cheers,
Greg

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