On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:45:04AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > 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.
Base backups can be perfectly self-contained as long as they include all the WAL segments needed to recover up to the end-of-backup record. That's what pg_basebackup does with its default options (--wal-method=stream in particular). > If you aren't regularly testing your backups then I've got little > sympathy. Fortunately they do, hundreds of time on a daily basis ;) > To be clear, pgbackrest doesn't have any dependency here- but it, like > all of the other 3rd party backup solutions and any restore solution > that a user has come up with, are going to have to be changed to deal > with the changes in how recovery works, so this is a good time to make > these changes. My point is that base backups do not have a mandatory dependency with recovery.conf all the time as they can perfectly be restored if they are standalone backups. I can see a dependency with recovery.conf once you have a base backup which needs to be fed with WAL segments from an external archive, or when using a base backup to create a standby. -- Michael
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