Re: pg_basebackup Failed

Check the complete path on your primary replica.

Refer the below example
Example: *pg_basebackup -h <hostip> -U <>repuser -Xs -P -R -D
/var/lib/pgsql/11/ -p 5490*

This command will copy the complete data in */data* directory from the
primary node to /var/lib/pgsql/11/ on the replica node.

On replica node you can go to /var/lib/pgsql/11/ and find that /data
directory of primary replica gets copied here.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 4:35 PM Yongye Serkfem <yserkfem(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I do not know why I am having this problem. My pg_basebackup which I took
> using this command "pg_basebackup -h xxxxxx -p 5432 -U postgres_repuser -D
> /data/postgres -R" is failing with this error message "pg_basebackup:
> error: could not create directory "/data/postgres/pg_log": File exists"
> I cleaned up that directory using rm -rf /data/postgres/ .*/ and I still
> end up with the above error message.
> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>
> Yong
>