Re: block-level incremental backup

From: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: block-level incremental backup
Date: 2019-07-17 14:08:07
Message-ID: CALtqXTf9S4j112wxyj3AiicUZqyO=6aC9RkkCYMJ=8E+ieg6xQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 PM Jeevan Chalke <
jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:15 PM Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> At what stage you will apply the WAL generated in between the START/STOP
>> backup.
>>
>
> In this design, we are not touching any WAL related code. The WAL files
> will
> get copied with each backup either full or incremental. And thus, the last
> incremental backup will have the final WAL files which will be copied as-is
> in the combined full-backup and they will get apply automatically if that
> the data directory is used to start the server.
>

Ok, so you keep all the WAL files since the first backup, right?

>
>
>> --
>> Ibrar Ahmed
>>
>
> --
> Jeevan Chalke
> Technical Architect, Product Development
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
>
>

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Ibrar Ahmed

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