Re: pgbackrest info of encrypted seems broken

On 5/19/21 12:08 PM, David Steele wrote:
> On 5/19/21 9:47 AM, Ron wrote:
>>
>> This is on Postgresql 9.6, if it matters.  Attached is a text file
>> showing the pgbackrest version, config, backup log and "pgbackrest info"
>> output.
>>
>> I followed the instructions in
>> https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#quickstart/configure-encryption,
>> and successfully ran these commands before the first encrypted backup,
>> but they aren't in the text file:
>> rm -r /Database/9.6/backups/pgbackrest
>> pgbackrest stanza-create --stanza=localhost
>>
>> Have I misconfigured something?
>
> If the cipher is configured per stanza then the info command must be run
> per stanza, e.g.
>
> pgbackrest --stanza=localhost info
>
> If the cipher settings were in [global] this would work as expected, but
> of course there may be valid reasons to set the cipher at the stanza
> level. Essentially, if you run the info command without --stanza it has no
> knowledge of stanza-level settings.

Both of those solved the problem.  I wound up moving it up to [global].

>
> We've known about this internally for a while, but have never seen it
> expressed in the field. If this is a blocker for you (i.e. you can't put
> the cipher settings in [global]) then feel free to open a Gtihub issue
> (https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/issues) so it is on our radar.

What I suggest is documenting this. :)    Issue #1407.

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