Re: pg_dump on a standby for a very active master

Will barman automatically do a delta restore assuming the postgres server
is stopped and the old cluster exists at the same location it's restoring
to?

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:59 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> * Arjun Ranade (ranade(at)nodalexchange(dot)com) wrote:
> > Yeah, that was one thing I was planning to try. The other potential
> > solution is to use barman (we are using barman on all db servers
> including
> > standbys) to restore the latest backup to a VM and then take the pg_dump
> > from there. But I was hoping there would be a way in the settings to
> > prevent such a workaround.
>
> Performing a file-level backup and then restoring that and then
> taking a pg_dump of restored cluster works quite well as a solution, in
> my experience, even better is when you can do a delta restore over top
> of the prior restore, updating just the files which were different, as
> that can be much faster.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>