Re: block-level incremental backup

Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>

From: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>
To: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-07-17T14:08:07Z
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 PM Jeevan Chalke <
jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:15 PM Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> At what stage you will apply the WAL generated in between the START/STOP
>> backup.
>>
>
> In this design, we are not touching any WAL related code. The WAL files
> will
> get copied with each backup either full or incremental. And thus, the last
> incremental backup will have the final WAL files which will be copied as-is
> in the combined full-backup and they will get apply automatically if that
> the data directory is used to start the server.
>

Ok, so you keep all the WAL files since the first backup, right?

>
>
>> --
>> Ibrar Ahmed
>>
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> --
> Jeevan Chalke
> Technical Architect, Product Development
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
>
>

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Ibrar Ahmed