Re: Backup "Best Practices"

Israel Brewster <israel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:01:56 -0900

On Nov 28, 2016, at 2:13 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    On 11/28/2016 2:50 PM, Israel Brewster
      wrote:

                Why wouldn't the streaming replica salvage
                  that?  Are they expected to fail together?  Is the NFS
                  share onto which you want to store your basebackup and
                  WAL also expected to fail together with them?

      That's why I specified *total* failure. If only the primary dies,
      that's a simple cutover to the secondary, and not a total failure
      - no need to go to backups of any sort under that scenario :-) I'm
      thinking more along the lines of server room burns down, natural
      disaster, etc - something that causes a total failure of the db
      system, necessitating recovery from an offsite backup.

your base backups and WAL archive should be replicated offsite,
      then.

Obviously :-)

    -- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz