Miguel Arroz wrote:
Going a bit off topic, but one quick question: to avoid storing GB of WAL files that will probably take a lot of time to reload, how can the backup be "reset"? I suspect that it's something like stopping the WAL archiving, doing a new base backup, and restart archiving, but I've never done it (have been using SQL dumps), so...
Basically, you only need WAL logs from the last time you made a back-up of your data directory. We do nightly re-rsync of our data directory and then purge old WAL files that are no longer needed.
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