Re: Backup "Best Practices"

[Israel Brewster <israel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 23, 2016, at 10:31 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/23/2016 11:20 AM, Israel Brewster wrote:

How do I determine which those are? Just based on the timestamp if the WAL file, such that I could do something like take the timestamp of the last basebackup and delete all WAL files older than that? Or is there a better way?

there's a tool, barman, I've never used but its supposed to greatly simplify this whole process...

http://www.pgbarman.org/

Definitely looks like something to try. Thanks!

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Israel Brewster

Systems Analyst II

Ravn Alaska

5245 Airport Industrial Rd

Fairbanks, AK 99709

(907) 450-7293

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