Re: WAL archiving

Thanks loads Dawid,

I'll test the process on the TEST box and note down the time it takes.

Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Shilpa Sudhakar
> <ssudhakar(at)internode(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>
>> Since the wal logs keep increasing, do we take the base backup every now
>> and then so that we can delete the old log files?
>> How often do we take a base filesystem backup keeping in mind that our
>> systems are 24 x 7.
>>
>
> Depends on your workload and needs.
>
> Say, if you have a policy on having ability to "go back in time" for
> at least 30 days, then
> you must keep last base backup that was done before 30 days and all
> the log files since
> then.
>
> But your primary concern should be probably recovery time after
> failure (your whole machine
> just fried ;)). What you need to do is restore last backup and reply
> all archival WAL logs
> since then. And assume worst possible situation (the machine fried
> just before full backup),
> for a weekly backups it means 7 days worth of WAL-log reply.
>
> Now, if your database is DML-heavy recovery won't be very fast, so you
> might want to take
> base backups more frequently. Or better -- set up a standby server
> which will constantly
> reply the backups.
>
> Regards,
> Dawid Kuroczko
>
> PS: And before setting a policy, do try test recovery and note down
> how much time it took.
>