Re: Setting up replication slave on remote high latency host

On 11/15/2017 6:02 PM, Rory Falloon wrote:
>
> Right now I am trying to dump the database, gzip, move across, and
> import into the new slave (which is configured as a master to perform
> the initial setup). Ideally I do this dump, move and import during a
> period of inactivity on the master so the new server will come up and
> immediately be able to catch up on replication due to lack of
> activity. However, I have been importing the current db as a test and
> after 90 minutes it seems to have only got 2/3 of the way. I am not
> confident this will work but it seems like the most efficient way to
> start.

you can't use pg_dump to create a slave, as it won't have the same timeline.

I would use pg_basebackup, but in general streaming replication over a
high latency erratic link will never work real well.

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