Re: pg_basebackup Failed

Hi

To debug the issue, try to take the backup to a location where user taking
the backup has Access, provide the location with -D option.
This way it will be confirmed if the issue is due to permissions.

Thanks
Kashif Zeeshan
Bitnine Global

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 5:35 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
>