Re: a question about Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: a question about Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
Date: 2022-08-12 05:08:20
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On 8/11/22 17:15, jian xu wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>          I am creating an automation script which can do PITR restore. For
> example if users specify the timestamp, I can retore the db to that point.
> All backup files are on other place, the restore procedure includes
>
> 1. Download full backup file generated from pg_basebackup
> 2. Download all wal archive files generated since the full backup file to
> the timestamp users specified.
>
> However, the problem is how I can read the begin and end transaction
> timestamp in each wal archive file?
>
> Without knowing the transaction timestamp, I am not able know which wal
> archive file I need to download.
>
> I tried pg_waldump, but it doesn’t have transaction timestamp.
>
> Does anyone know the solution? Thanks!
>

If you run Linux, then pgBackRest is (almost certainly) what you want.

Download it from https://pgbackrest.org/ or get it from your distro's
https://www.postgresql.org/download/ repository.

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