Re: Remove Deprecated Exclusive Backup Mode

[Christophe Pettus]

> On Feb 25, 2019, at 11:24, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
> Aren't they going to need to make a change for v12 now anyway?
> 
> Hopefully they're regularly testing their backups by doing a restore of
> them, and dropping a recovery.conf into the directory of a v12 system
> after restore will do exactly nothing and they'll get errors complaining
> about how they need to provide a restore_command.

It varies with the installation, but backups are 100% - epsilon automated, 
while restores are very frequently done via runbook.  Changing a runbook is 
institutionally less contentious, and the change is more or less "drop the file 
into mumble/conf.d rather than mumble", which is less of a break.

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