On 7/29/16 5:31 PM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: >> Are you saying that?: >> >> 1) You ran pg_basebackup against a live cluster and sent the output to >> another location. >> >> 2) At the other location the cluster is not in use. >> >> 3) You want to grab the contents of the inactive cluster directly off the >> disk. >> >> If that is the case, then no it is not possible without making the cluster >> live. >> >> If you mean something else then more details are needed. > > Sure. > > 1 - You ran pg_basebackup on node-1 against a live cluster and store > it on NFS or tape. > 2 - Do a restore on node-2 from the backup taken on (1), but only for > a subset of the database > (schema/database) > 3- Put the cluster live on node-2 after (2) completes. Essentially the > cluster will now be a small > subset of cluster on node-1. > > Benefit: If I have to restore only 5% of entire db, it should be lot faster. pgBackRest allows specified databases to be restored from a cluster backup: http://www.pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#restore/option-db-include I know you are interested in schema-level restores but this is the closest thing that I know of. -- -David david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
