RE: Need help pg backup & recovery

Thanks Lætitia,

 

When I setup the physical backup with one of the tools you specified, will that recover the /pgindexes & /pgtablespaces ?

 

Thanks,

Srikar

 

 

From: Lætitia Avrot [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 15:57
To: Srikar Vankadaru <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-novice <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Need help pg backup & recovery

 

 

Now I setup up full backup using pgdump and WAL logs (for PITR).

During the recovery will the pgdump recovers /pgtablespaces and /pgindexes as well ?

I want to understand how to take backup in this scenario so I should be able to do a full PITR.

 

 

Hi,

pg_dump is a logical backup. You can't apply WAL on top of it. You can't PITR out of a logical dump. To do that, you need a physical backup (look at pg_basebackup, pg_barman, pg_backrest or pg_probackup) to be able to apply WALs. You'll find more informations in [that](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup.html) documentation page

Have a nice day,

Lætitia

 

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