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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it…

The rest of this recipe assumes the following answers to the key questions:

  • The archive is a directory, such as /backups/archive, on a remote server for disaster recovery named $DRNODE
  • We send WAL files to the archive using rsync; however, WAL streaming can also be used, by changing the recipe in a way similar to the previous one
  • Base backups are also stored on $DRNODE, in the /backups/base directory
  • Base backups are made using rsync

The following steps assume that a number of environment variables have been set, which are as follows:

  • $PGDATA is the path to the PostgreSQL data directory, ending with /
  • $DRNODE is the name of the remote server
  • $BACKUP_NAME is an identifier for the backup
  • All the required PostgreSQL connection ...
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