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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: verify checksums online
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:29:42 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKAnmmLViSdwH2mhAQnpRueB7toZxkf_WUcpS9ZhBiE+hJw9Ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
wrote:

> but i wanted to confirm with someone - my easiest options for online
> verifying checksums would be to trigger pg_basebackup then check
> pg_stat_database, or to install michael's utility?
>

Your easiest option is to just use pgbackrest, which verifies checksums as
part of its process. So you are guaranteed to have every page verified at
least as often as every full backup.

Cheers,
Greg

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