Re: wal-g (https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g) reliability

On 2/8/21 3:28 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
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> Interesting that you ask this! I say that because it's actually a case
> that pgbackrest contemplated and explicitly added support for-
> specifically, if you set --archive-copy (or archive-copy=true) and
> disable compression (or decompress everything before you start PG), then
> you can just start PG from the backup and it'll perform the necessary
> recovery from the WAL and start up. We considered this an interesting
> use-case and used it extensively and have maintained support for it.
>
> All that said, of course, this limits the ability to do typical PITR,
> but at least it gives you a consistent backup which you can start PG
> from.

In the SQL Server world, that's a COPY_ONLY backup.

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