February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
734 pages
38h 13m
English
Like all good backup management suites, pgBackRest is also well equipped to restore data from its backup repository. We can either restore the latest backup for a specific stanza or choose one of the specific backups in the inventory. There are also settings we can use to restore to a different directory than where the data originated.
It's also important to understand that pgBackRest is a pull-based system. This means only the repository itself may be considered remote. Hence, if we want to build a new PostgreSQL clone system, we have to install pgBackRest and configure it to request files from the backup server. This is a stark contrast to Barman, which assumes all commands are initiated from the backup ...
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