Re: pgbackrest restore to new location?

On 9/17/19 6:48 AM, David Steele wrote:
> On 9/17/19 7:23 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> The real problem is that after doing that, "pg_ctl start -D
>>> /path/to/new/data" fails with "PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint
>>> record".
> Sounds like backup_label is missing or has been deleted.
>
> The easiest way to restore to a new location is just to copy
> pgbackrest.conf from the primary (or create a new one) with the same
> stanza and then alter pg1-path in pgbackrest.conf or at the command line.

That's what I did.  (Also, I opened Issue #839 in GitHub  All of the log
files are attached there.)

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