Re: Taking rsynced base-backup without wal-archiving enabled

It depends on the database transactional activity,
observe how many new wal files are generated during a period equivalent to
what it takes to do your base backup. I would set it to twice that number.
Take into account that a checkpoint is issued at the beginning of the
process. If you're lazy just try setting it to something very high such as
256 or more to prevent wal files being recycled during the process.

2014-06-23 2:12 GMT-05:00 Jürgen Fuchsberger <juergen(dot)fuchsberger(at)gmx(dot)at>:

> Hi all,
>
> Can I do a consistent file-system-level backup using the following
> procedure:
>
> 1) SELECT pg_start_backup(...)
> 2) rsync postgres data dir to another server
> 3) SELECT pg_stop_backup()
> 4) rsync pg_xlog directory
>
> From what I understand this should be similar to running pg_basebackup
> using the -x parameter, correct? One caveat seems to be that
> wal_keep_segments should be set "high enough". Can anybody tell what
> "high enough" usually is?
>
> Thanks in advance for you help!
>
> Best regards,
> Juergen
>
>
>
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