Re: Basebackup fails without useful error message

Hi,
You can enable verbose to get more detail about what is happening during
backup
pg_basebackup -h your_host -U your_user -D /mnt/base_backup/dir/ -v
Also examine recent postgres logs
Verify backup directory permissions

On Sun, 29 Sept 2024 at 19:49, Koen De Groote <kdg(dot)dev(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Having run a basebackup, I'm getting this output at the very end:
>
> pg_basebackup: child process exited with error 1
> pg_basebackup: removing contents of data directory "/mnt/base_backup/dir/"
>
> Is there a way to get more information as to what exactly happened?
>
> I'd like to look into fixing this or doing whatever is required so that it
> doesn't happen again, but this just isn't enough info. Where do I start
> looking?
>
> Regards,
> Koen De Groote
>