Re: Best backup strategy for production systems

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best backup strategy for production systems
Date: 2014-06-19 18:28:42
Message-ID: 53A32BDA.3010803@hogranch.com
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On 6/19/2014 3:14 AM, Oliver wrote:
> About wal files and archiving of them, I must delete both manually,
> isn't it? There isn't any option for automatically delete wal files
> with a given age in the postgresql.conf, isn't it? (Away of
> archive_command). Do you use Linux? Could you pass me your
> archive_command or script that you use for copying/gzipping the files?
> Thanks beforehand.

you need ALL the archived WAL files since the start of the last base
backup, or none of them are useful.

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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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