Re: pg_combinebackup failure

From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kouber Saparev <kouber(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_combinebackup failure
Date: 2025-07-23 10:41:48
Message-ID: CAKoxK+6mEwEFSwR9YkzL2qPAirJFg3MSiB9cDsJ09mzcTYKfkA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM Kouber Saparev <kouber(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are using PostgreSQL 17.3 and Barman 3.14.0.
>
> We are trying to use pg_combinebackup but eventually it fails with:
>
> pg_combinebackup --debug --dry-run --output=/barman-backup/barman-data/test_combine 20250616T140003/data 20250617T090005/data
>

I don't think combining barman and PostgreSQL basebackups is a good
idea. While barman does use pg_basebackup (I don't think it uses the
incremental feature, yet), it could have done some relinking after the
backup has been taken (of some other stuff).

Luca

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