Thanks for your answer Laurenz.
I was planning to rely on the disk backup (of the base backup) if I wanted to
restore to a version before the last on disk base backup. But your point about
redundancy is good... I think I will keep two base backups, and do a base
backup every day. Over the netwo
>> Unfortunately though if there is heavy load, the wal files will be generated
>> more regularly than the 5 minute max.
> If you wrote the WAL to an external, mounted disk, wouldn't that solve the
> issue?
What I'm trying to say is that I configured it to keep (60/5) * 24 segments
plus a few
Morning
I made the mistake of thinking that I could recover to any point in time with a
logical backup plus WAL files, unfortunately that is not the case. I was
rsync'ing wal files to another system, and set the archive timeout to 5 mins,
and the retention to allow for 25 hours worth or so. Unf
