From: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> |
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To: | Craig James <cjames(at)emolecules(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgbackrest: backup from standby |
Date: | 2018-08-20 19:36:27 |
Message-ID: | d67a6a2a-5b8b-ee93-ea3f-464b8d8aa6ce@pgmasters.net |
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On 8/20/18 12:12 PM, Craig James wrote:
> The pgbackrest documentation has a section on backing up from a standby,
> but I'm having trouble figuring it out. I think it's just a terminology
> problem: I can't figure out which configuration directives go on which
> server.
>
> To begin with, I already have streaming replication running:
>
> Primary server (live database): "radon"
>
> [emolecules]
> db-path=/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main
>
> [global]
> repo-path=/pg_archive/pgbackrest
> retention-full=10
> backup-user=postgres
> log-level-file=detail
>
>
> Hot-standby server: "standby"
>
> [emolecules]
> db-path=/var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main
> recovery-option=standby_mode=on
>
> [global]
> backup-host=radon.emolecules.com <http://radon.emolecules.com>
> backup-user=postgres
It's much easier just to mount the nfs volume to the standby and then
you can use the same configuration on the primary and standby, though I
can see below you have reasons not to do that.
> The standby server is on Amazon AWS, and I want to set up a backup
> Amazon S3 archive that gets its snapshot and WAL files from the standby
> in order to save bandwidth costs from the primary (don't want to copy
> the data twice).
This is not supported. If you enable "archive_mode=always" pgBackRest
will complain because there's no way to ensure that multiple server are
not archiving, especially on S3.
> Note that the primary is also archived to a local NFS disk. I want to
> keep that going, too, but create a second archive on S3. (The reason for
> this is that we're migrating from our own hardware to AWS, and during
> the transition need both systems fully functional.)
It's possible to backup/archive to multiple repos but the configuration
is complex. I recommend that you migrate your pgBackRest repo to S3
first. That goes like:
1) Sync the pgbackrest repo to S3 (using s3fs)
2) Stop archiving by setting archive_command=false
3) Sync the pgbackrest repo again to catch any files that were missed
the first time.
4) Reconfigure for S3 and enable archiving.
> There are sections in the user guide on /Backup from a Standby
> <https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#standby-backup>/ and on /S3
> Support <https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#s3-support>/, but I
> can't sort out how to combine them. Apparently I need to define
> pg1-host/pg1-path, and pg2-host/pg2-path, then a stanza for S3. But does
> all this go in the pgbackrest.conf of the primary ("radon" in my case),
> or on the standby, or somehow split across both?
You have an asymmetrical configuration here since there is not backup
server and shown in the pgBackRest docs. That makes configuration quite
a bit harder and make failover harder.
> Another question: if I modify these files, will the current standby
> replica keep streaming properly? That is, can I add the S3 repository to
> the current primary/standby pair without having to start over?
Yes, but multiple repositories are not natively support at this time so
it requires multiple configurations and some care.
Regards,
--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net
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