Re: Review my steps for rollback to restore point

Thank you !

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Chandran,
>
>
> 1. For PITR, you should use a tool like PgBackRest. It handles all
> $PGDATA and WAL archiving. It's multithreaded, too,
> 2. pg_restore is just for logical backups.
> 3. Streaming Replication is for *hot standby*, not backups.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM chandan Kumar <chandan(dot)issyoga(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your answer. I want to clarify one more doubt. Can PITR
>> be achieved without applying Base Backup
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2025-03-04 at 14:26 +0530, chandan Kumar wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> > I hope you are doing fine. I need your expertise on below case study.
>>> > My current production environment is 2 node streaming replication
>>> hosted on
>>> > Ubuntu VM 's on Azure. I have performed below steps on primary
>>> database.
>>> > 1- Take Base backup
>>> > 2- Create a restore point using pg_create_restore_point()
>>> > 3- executed some DDL statement (CREATE VIEW,ADD INDEX,DROP INDEX)
>>> > 4- Perform rollback using restore point
>>> > To rollback, you must stop PostgreSQL, restore the last full backup,
>>> and apply
>>> > WAL files until the restore point:
>>> > 1. Stop PostgreSQL Service
>>> > 2. Restore from Full Backup (Using pg_basebackup)
>>>
>> [snip]
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