PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition

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For this recipe, we'll be using an Amazon S3 user account with associated access key identified as key-ID and key-value. We've also created a bucket we will refer to as bucket-path, which is located in the aws-region zone. Follow these steps to install and configure WAL-E on a PostgreSQL server:

1. As the postgres user, use pip3 to install WAL-E and a complementary environment utility:

pip3 install --user wal-e envdir 

2. Install the necessary WAL-E cloud driver (Amazon, in our case) as the postgres user with this command:

pip3 install --user boto 

3. Create a configuration directory as the postgres user to contain environment variables:

mkdir -m 0700 -p ~/env 

4. As the postgres user, install several environment variables with ...