Re: Move pgBackrest repo?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM Colin 't Hart <colinthart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> What is the best way to move a pgBackrest repo?
>
> It was configured as /var/lib/pgbackrest, but we want to move it to
> /data/pbackrest to get it off the root partition.
>
> It is being written to continually by archivers from several servers.
> Since access is over ssh, there's no server component that we can just stop
> for the duration.
>

The first thing I'd do is start rsyncing from /var/lib/pgbackrest to
/data/pbackrest.

I don't, though, know enough about remote PgBackRest configuration to know
whether PG on the db servers needs to be stopped for the moment when you
reconfigure pgbr on the repo server.

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