Greetings, * Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > On 27/11/2018 15:45, Stephen Frost wrote: > >>> But backup scripts are not affected by the recovery.conf changes. > >> In any of my own backup scripts (yeah!), I don't have any dependency to > >> that either. Or perhaps pgBackRest has a dependency in this area? > > If you don't consider your recovery scripts and your backup scripts to > > be related then I've really got to wonder how you're regularly testing > > your backups to make sure that they're actually valid. > > The sort of installations that continue to use the exclusive backup mode > probably have the following tooling: a 20-line shell script to make the > backup and either a 10-line shell script or a similarly sized README or > wiki page to do the recovery. Changing the latter for the recovery.conf > changes is probably a 3-line change. Changing the former for the > removal of exclusive backups would require major changes. (Try writing > a shell script that keeps a psql session open while it takes the backup > from the file system. It's possible, but it requires significantly more > logic.)
They're also the sort of installations which don't have reliable backups and don't have any clue about the danger they are in due to the current bug/issue/whatever we have with exclusive backups. No, I don't agree that it's sensible to continue to march on as if nothing is wrong. Thanks! Stephen
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