On Wed, 2021-10-27 at 11:21 +1300, Lucas wrote: > The snapshots are done this way: > 1. Grab the latest applied WAL File for further references, stores that in a > variable in Bash > 2. Stop the Postgres process > 3. Check it is stopped > 4. Start the Block level EBS Snapshot process > 5. Applied tags to the snapshot, such as the WAL file from Step #1 > 6. Wait for snapshot to complete, querying the AWS API for that > 7. Start PG > 8. Check it is started > 9. Check it is replicating from master
If you shutdown the server cleanly, that backup is good and does not need recovery to restore. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
