Re: What directories to include in base backup

[Selva manickaraja <mavles78@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can ignore contents of pg_xlog is you are running WAL archiving. You can skip postmaster.pid and pg_log but make sure that you recreate pg_log  in the target.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:13 PM, A B <gentosaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello.

I just wanted to check with you, the experts, on what directories to
include in the basebackup (following
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/continuous-archiving.html)

I should include these:

base/
global/
pg_clog/
pg_multixact/
pg_stat_tmp/
pg_subtrans/
pg_tblspc/
pg_twophase/
PG_VERSION
pg_xlog/
postmaster.opts


and I can skip

pg_log/
postmaster.pid

Right?

What about pg_xlog/ directory? Is that really needed? I store the WAL
file in another place already, or should pg_xlog be included just in
case it will be more recent if crash-recovery i possible?

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