Re: pg_basebackup --incremental

Thanks very much, Serkan. We'll have a look.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM Serkan Akdemir <osmosyum(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I created a script for incremental backup+merge on PostgreSQL 17+ It
> creates a full backup and later (next run) incremental backups. Incremental
> backups are merged to full backup with script, so you have always updated
> full backup. Disclaimer:
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> I created a script for incremental backup+merge on PostgreSQL 17+
> It creates a full backup and later (next run) incremental backups.
> Incremental backups are merged to full backup with script, so you have
> always updated full backup.
> Disclaimer: use it at your own risk.
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> Simple usage is:
> # first backup should be full
> pg_backup.sh --mode=fulll
>
> # then inc
> pg_backup.sh --mode=fincremental
>
> medium-resources/pg_backup.sh at main · rdnkrkmz/medium-resources
> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh>
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> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh>
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> <https://github.com/rdnkrkmz/medium-resources/blob/main/pg_backup.sh>
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> On 28 Oct 2025, at 20:42, Sam Stearns <sam(dot)stearns(at)dat(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> We're running version 17.6. Would anyone be able to point me to, or
> provide, some sample use cases / scripts / usage to deploy a pg_basebackup
> full + --incremental strategy as a backup solution, please?
>
> This will be used temporarily as we are migrating to RDS soon which is why
> we're not going with pgBackRest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
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