On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:12:53PM +0000, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing an automated file-system level backup application for use > with WAL archiving, that will issue the pg_start_backup call, tar and > gzip the cluster data directory, issue the pg_stop_backup call, and > remove all previous un-needed WAL files from the archive. > > I need to write a regular expression that will search for the WAL > filename and checkpoint location from the backup_label file, and just > want to clarify that the checkpoint location will always be of the > format: X/XXXXXX - where X is one of 0-9, A-F? > > And then the WAL .backup file that is generated in the archive, has a > filename of the form: > > <WAL_FILE>.00XXXXXX.backup > > where <WAL_FILE> is the name of the "STARTING WAL LOCATION" directive in > the backup_label file, and XXXXXX is the last 6 digits of the checkpoint > (after the / )? I don't know the answer, but since no one's replied I suggest looking in the code. Looking at the source of pg_start_backup would probably be a good start, though I'm guessing the real answer is somewhere in the backend. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
