Hi Don, On 2/19/18 9:25 AM, Don Seiler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 8:18 AM, David Steele <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > It copies files that are not replicated from the primary so that a > primary-style backup is created. Anything that is replicated (which is > by far the bulk of the data) is copied from the standby. > > OK so all data files would be copied from standby. Can you give me an > example of the types of files that need to be copied from primary? > Anything *not* in global (except pg_control), base, pg_tblspc, pg_xact/pg_clog, and pg_multixact are copied from the primary. For example, pg_stat is copied from the primary so these stats are preserved on a standby backup. pgBackRest uses all the same exclusions as pg_basebackup, so many dirs/files are not copied at all: pg_dynshmem, pg_notify, pg_replslot, pg_serial, pg_snapshots, pg_stat_tmp, pg_subtrans, etc. Full list here https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/protocol-replication.html. > it's best to archive from the primary so a replication > failure does not affect your archiving. > > Understood, just not something I can change in production primary at the > moment. Hence looking to see about a quick one-off backup from standby. For a quick one-off, pg_basebackup is your friend. Regards, -- -David david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
