From: | Neil McGuigan <neilmcguigan(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | How to do incremental / differential backup every hour in Postgres 9.1? |
Date: | 2013-07-25 22:24:24 |
Message-ID: | CAEO=d1ONxt6x-44ee8TjWBwtVgje9AbWuxfYZCww6vpSdht4Fg@mail.gmail.com |
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Trying to do an hourly hot incremental backup of a single postgres server
(windows).
I have the following setup in postgresql.conf:
max_wal_senders=2
wal_level=archive
archive_mode=on
archive_command='copy "%p" "c:\\postgres\\archive\\%f"'
I did a base backup with pg_basebackup -U postgres -D ..\archive -Ft -l
2013-07-07 -x
Which made a big base.tar file in the archive folder and added some long
file name files, which I assume are the WALs.
pg_start_backup('label') and pg_stop_backup() seem to create the WAL files
in xp_log, and then copy them to the archive folder.
Questions:
1. what command(s) do I run to do a new incremental backup (pg_basebackup
does a new base backup which I don't want right now)? do I just run select
pg_start_backup('label'); select pg_stop_backup(); on a schedule?
2. What does the label in pg_basebackup and pg_start_backup() do exactly?
3. WAL Files don't seem to be removed from pg_xlog. What should I do about
that? It seems to keep 5 or so WALs in pg_xlog. Is that to be expected?
4. Do I need to backup the .backup files in the archive folder or just the
16,384KB WAL files?
5. should I use the --xlog parameter and if so do I need to change
wal_keep_segments from 0?
Thanks!
Neil
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