Re: Barman versus pgBackRest

Hi Ron,

On 9/4/18 7:41 AM, Ron wrote:
> On 03/09/2018 08:56 AM, David Steele wrote:
> [snip]
>>> About pgBarman, I like :
>>> - be able restore on a remote server from the backup server
>> This a good feature, and one that has been requested for pgBackRest. You
>> can do this fairly trivially with ssh, however, so it generally hasn't
>> been a big deal for people.  Is there a particular reason you need this
>> feature?
>
> (Sorry to dredge up this old thread.)
>
> Do you just change the IP address of the "restore target"?

[I'll assume you wanted to hear about pgBackRest here since we discussed
it down thread.]

Generally restores are done from the database server, but if you want to
run a restore from the backup server you can run it via ssh:

ssh user(at)pg-server pgbackrest [...]

>
>>> - use replication slots for backingup wal on the backup server.
>> Another good feature.  We have not added it yet because pgBackRest was
>> originally written for very high-volume clusters (100K+ WAL per day) and
>> our parallel async feature answers that need much better.  We recommend
>> a replicated standby for more update-to-date data.
>
> Every N minutes you copy the WAL files to the backup server?
>
>

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-David
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