Re: could not find a valid record after in barman's backups

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM lejeczek <peljasz(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

> Hi guys.
>
> I know it's not strictly *barman* list but I presume many here use it.
> I do, but I only now realized that using barman's *recovery* with PIT is
> faulty - apparently have been for a while.
> So I wonder - besides the fault(s) - I must be missing something or doing
> something incorrectly for...
> when I check backups *wals* I get:
>
> -> $ pg_waldump
> ubusrv-master-10-1-1-88/wals/00000B000000000D/00000B000000000D00000030
> pg_waldump: fatal: could not find a valid record after D/30000000
>
> and that is for every *wal* in the backup - which has to wrong, no?
> How & where do I start troubleshooting this?
>

Can *barman* restore the instance? For example, pg_waldump would barf on
WALs in a PgBackRest repo because it's encrypted in addition to being
compressed, even though pgbackrest does PITR restores without complaint.

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