From: | Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgbackrest periodic WAL backups? |
Date: | 2018-12-09 22:24:16 |
Message-ID: | 859f2c25-3a22-71fa-e1fa-764724183764@gmail.com |
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On 12/09/2018 01:10 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Ron (ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> I've got a full pgbackrest backup in crontab that runs weekly, and a diff
>> backup that runs nightly. However, I can't find any way to do hourly WAL
>> backups.
>>
>> Or does "archive_command = 'pgbackrest --stanza=demo archive-push %p'" just
>> keep things automatically caught up, obviating the need for periodic WAL
>> backups (as are needed in other RDBMSs)?
> Yes and no. With the archive command, every WAL archived will be pushed
> to the archive more-or-less immediately (or, at least, as fast as your
> system can get it there, if you enable parallel archiving in
> pgbackrest), however, WAL files have a size (by default 16MB) and if you
> have a very slowly changing system then it could possibly be hours
> between WALs being pushed to the archive by archive_command.
>
> You can address that risk by enabling archive_timeout, which will make
> PostgreSQL archive the WAL file even if it isn't full after a certain
> amount of time, reducing the potential data loss window.
I thought checkpoint_timeout forced a WAL switch.
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