On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/09/2017 11:33 AM, Jeff Janes wrote:
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
v8.4.20
This is what the current backup script uses:
/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -c "SELECT pg_start_backup('Incrementalbackup',true);" cp -r /var/lib/pgsql/data/* $dumpdir/data//usr/bin/psql -U postgres template1 -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup();"
That's fine, as long as you have a wal archive. Although I don't know what is "Incremental" about it.
From reading the docs, that field is just a label with no intrinsic meaning.
Its purpose is to communicate with you. If the person who implemented my backup solution is attempting to communicate with me, and I have no idea what that communication means, then that makes me quite nervous.
Cheers,
Jeff
