On Sun, 2020-05-17 at 17:41 +0300, Andrus wrote: > How to implement hot standby and PITR recovery possibility in same backup > server. > > Plan is: > > 1. Create base backup using > > pg_basebackup --checkpoint=fast --verbose --progress --write-recovery-conf -D > /var/lib/postgresql/12/standby > > 2. Create backup copy of /var/lib/postgresql/12/standby directory for PITR > > 3. set max_wal_size in postgresql.conf to 5 TB > > 4. Start backup server for hot standby backups. > > If data from earlier point of time is required: > > 1. Stop backup server > 2. Replace its data dirctory from of initial data directory contents created > in previous p.2 > 4. Copy pg_wal contents from hot standby pg_wal directory to initial pg_wal > directory in base backup > 5. Specify recovery time in postgresql.conf and start backup server to > recover to this point of time. > > The most suspicius point is p.4 : copying manually pg_wal contents from hot > data to base backup data. > > It this OK ? Or is some better way to implement hot stadby and PITR > possibility in same computer ? > Postgres 12 in Debian is used.
This is confused or at least confusing. - "max_wal_size" of 5TB is clearly insane. - I don't understand what you mean by "Start backup server for hot standby backups". Do I get it right that you want to copy a streaming replication standby server's data directory to perform PITR? That doesn't see like a good plan, because the standby usually won't be much behind the primary server, and you can only recover to a later point in time. If you care to elaborate, perhaps the question can be answered. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
