Re: Pgbackrest failure for INCR and DIFF but not FULL backup

KK CHN <kkchn.in@gmail.com>

From: KK CHN <kkchn.in@gmail.com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-05-08T11:16:13Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM KK CHN <kkchn.in@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *archive_command = 'pgbackrest --stanza=My_Repo archive-push %p && cp %p
>> /data/archive/%f' *
>>
>
> Don't do this. You are archiving twice, and worse, the first part is using
> async archiving. Remove that whole "cp" part. Once that is fixed, run:
>

I'm going to see if putting   *archive_command = 'pgbackrest
--stanza=My_Repo archive-push %p'   *fix the problem.  This was haunting me
for more than a week.

Thanks for the suggestion.


> pgbackrest --stanza=My_Repo check
>
> to verify that WAL is being archived quickly and properly. Then test your
> backups, checking the file
> /var/log/pgbackrest/My_Repo-archive-push-async.log and your postgres log if
> any problems arise.
>
> Thanks .
Krishane


Cheers,
> Greg
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