Thank you for shedding light on this.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM Mateusz Henicz <mateuszhenicz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When you are performing PITR you need to configure a timestamp before your last committed transaction. In your case you provided timestamp after your last commit.
I am trying to understand this concept and correct me if I am wrong
If I do
STEPS:
1. Noting down the time stamp just before my table drop, then
2. Drop a table, then
3. Taking the incremental backup after this table drop on Repo server, Then
4. If I do a PITR, with --target = timestamp noted in step1 and --set = the incr backup taken in step3
Then if perform a PITR restore by pgbackrest in step4 will it succeed or fail theoretically ?
Thanks,
Krishane
When postgtes is restoring until a specified point, it restores a transaction from WAL, and checking if next transaction is before or after said timestamp. If it is before it will replay it and check next transaction. Until next transaction is after configured timestamp.If there is no transaction after your current timestamp in current WAL, postgres will try to restore next WAL from archive. And since there is no next WAL, and your timestamp is past latest committed transaction, it is unable to continue, because it does not know if there should be any other transaction replayed or not.Just perform some other actions after you note down the timestamp after drop table. Create another one, insert some data, do whatever to have another transaction in WALs.Cheers,Mateuszczw., 1 sie 2024 o 12:23 KK CHN <kkchn.in@xxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):The logs are here.On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zeeshan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:HiOn Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 2:54 PM KK CHN <kkchn.in@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:List,Not working (start EPAS server always fails):1. Testing PTR using PgBackRest(2.52.1) on RHEL9 EPAS-16, and RHEL9 ( Repo Server)When I do a PTR1. After doing a table drop and then2. Noting down the time stamp and then3. Taking an incremental backup in hope that If I do a restore from this incr Backup, that won't contain the dropped table.4. Correct me if I am conceptually wrong here.5. I am never successful in restoring the EPAS server in this scenario.I know the following will work for me, why not the above one if I really want that state of cluster also ?This is Working.1. Create table2. Noting down the timestamp3. Taking incremental backup on RepoServer.4. drop the created table .5. Then stop the EPAS server and do a PTR, by the --set=step 3 incr backup and target= step 2 time stamp .. It finished the pgaback restore and promote command6. I am able to start back the EPAS server and see the dropped table recovered there.But If I want a PTR as in the first section it fails.. Why ?Thank you,KrishaneWhat I have done and results obtained:Created a table important_table4 in my EPAS and note down the time after creation of this table it is ( t1 : "01-AUG-24 14:08:32.447796+05:30" )Then I performed an Incremental backup (incr backup: 20240729-160137F_20240801-141148I )timestamp start/stop: 2024-08-01 14:11:48+05:30 / 2024-08-01 14:11:52+05:30Now I dropped the table table4 from the EPAS and noted down the timeI want to restore the table4,, so I stopped EPAS and executed$ sudo -u enterprisedb pgbackrest --stanza=Demo_Repo --delta --set=20240729-160137F_20240801-141148I --target-timeline=current --type=time --target="01-AUG-24 14:08:32.447796+05:30" --target-action="" restoreIT WORKS AS EXPECTED .. after restarting the EPAS I am able to get the important_table4 back.root@service01 ~]# sudo -u enterprisedb psql edb
psql (16.3.0)
Type "help" for help.
edb=# \dt
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+------------------+-------+--------------
public | important_table | table | enterprisedb
public | important_table2 | table | enterprisedb
public | important_table3 | table | enterprisedb
public | important_table4 | table | enterprisedb
(4 rows)SO all works fine !!!! .But Now the PROBLEM Statement.1. I am dropping the table table 4 againedb=# \q
[root@service01 ~]# sudo -u enterprisedb psql -c "begin; drop table important_table4; commit;" edb
BEGIN
DROP TABLE
COMMIT
2 . [root@service01 ~]# sudo -u enterprisedb psql -Atc "select current_timestamp" edb 01-AUG-24 14:23:22.085076 +05:30Noting the time as : (01-AUG-24 14:23:22.085076 +05:30 )3. Now I am performing an incremental backup after step 2 on REPO SErver ( Hoping that this latest INCR Backup is without dropped important_table4, so that a recovery of the cluster shouldn't show the table4 again. )incr backup details. : 20240729-160137F_20240801-142433I
timestamp start/stop: 2024-08-01 14:24:33+05:30 / 2024-08-01 14:24:36+05:304. Now I want to test the database recovery after dropping the table4 in step1 to verify that my EPAS restores from the backup in step 3 and time stamp (01-AUG-24 14:23:22.085076 +05:30, so that the restored EPAS cluster doesn't contain the important_table4.5. $ sudo -u enterprisedb pgbackrest --stanza=Demo_Repo --delta --set=20240729-160137F_20240801-142433I --target-timeline=current --type=time --target="01-AUG-24 14:23:22.085076+05:30" --target-action="" restore-------------------------INFO: restore command end: completed successfully (1035ms)ISSUE: I am unable to get the EPAS Server in running state after step 5What am I doing wrong ? OR am I conceptually wrong ?OUTPUT on executing step 5.[root@service01 ~]# sudo -u enterprisedb pgbackrest --stanza=Demo_Repo --delta --set=20240729-160137F_20240801-142433I --target-timeline=current --type=time --target="01-AUG-24 14:23:22.085076+05:30" --target-action="" restore
2024-08-01 14:30:03.535 P00 INFO: restore command begin 2.52.1: --delta --exec-id=82738-b5fe7415 --log-level-console=info --log-level-file=debug --pg1-path=/var/lib/edb/as16/data --pg-version-force=16 --repo1-host=10.10.20.7 --repo1-host-user=postgres --set=20240729-160137F_20240801-142433I --stanza=Demo_Repo --target="01-AUG-24 14:23:22.085076+05:30" --target-action="" --target-timeline=current --type=time
2024-08-01 14:30:03.880 P00 INFO: repo1: restore backup set 20240729-160137F_20240801-142433I, recovery will start at 2024-08-01 14:24:33
2024-08-01 14:30:03.881 P00 INFO: remove invalid files/links/paths from '/var/lib/edb/as16/data'
2024-08-01 14:30:04.567 P00 INFO: write updated /var/lib/edb/as16/data/postgresql.auto.conf
2024-08-01 14:30:04.569 P00 INFO: restore global/pg_control (performed last to ensure aborted restores cannot be started)
2024-08-01 14:30:04.569 P00 INFO: restore size = 75.9MB, file total = 2171
2024-08-01 14:30:04.569 P00 INFO: restore command end: completed successfully (1035ms)
[root@service01 ~]# systemctl start edb-as-16.serviceNow If I check the server status : Its dead[root@service01 ~]# systemctl status edb-as-16.service
× edb-as-16.service - EDB Postgres Advanced Server 16
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/edb-as-16.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-08-01 14:30:58 IST; 4s ago
Duration: 228ms
Process: 82752 ExecStartPre=/usr/edb/as16/bin/edb-as-16-check-db-dir ${PGDATA} (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 82757 ExecStart=/usr/edb/as16/bin/edb-postgres -D ${PGDATA} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 82757 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 325ms
Aug 01 14:30:56 service01 systemd[1]: Starting EDB Postgres Advanced Server 16...
Aug 01 14:30:56 service01 edb-postgres[82757]: 2024-08-01 14:30:56 IST LOG: redirecting log output to logging collector process
Aug 01 14:30:56 rservice01 edb-postgres[82757]: 2024-08-01 14:30:56 IST HINT: Future log output will appear in directory "log".
Aug 01 14:30:58 service01 systemd[1]: Started EDB Postgres Advanced Server 16.
Aug 01 14:30:58 service01 systemd[1]: edb-as-16.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 01 14:30:58 service01 systemd[1]: edb-as-16.service: Killing process 82758 (edb-postgres) with signal SIGKILL.
Aug 01 14:30:58 service01 systemd[1]: edb-as-16.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
[root@service01 ~]#Any hints/guidance most welcome.Can you please share the DB Server log as it contains the exact error which is causing the server not to start.Thanks
