Tag: backups

Waiting for PostgreSQL 17 – Add support for incremental backup.

On 20th of December 2023, Robert Haas committed patch:

Add support for incremental backup.
 
To take an incremental backup, you use the new replication command
UPLOAD_MANIFEST to upload the manifest for the prior backup. This
prior backup could either be a full backup or another incremental
backup.  You then use BASE_BACKUP with the INCREMENTAL option to take
the backup.  pg_basebackup now has an --incremental=PATH_TO_MANIFEST
option to trigger this behavior.
 
An incremental backup is like a regular full backup except that
some relation files are replaced with files with names like
INCREMENTAL.${ORIGINAL_NAME}, and the backup_label file contains
additional lines identifying it as an incremental backup. The new
pg_combinebackup tool can be used to reconstruct a data directory
from a full backup and a series of incremental backups.
 
Patch by me.  Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub
Wartak, Peter Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera. Thanks especially to
Jakub for incredibly helpful and extensive testing.
 
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com

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Waiting for 9.4 – Add recovery_target=’immediate’ option.

On 25th of January, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:

Add recovery_target='immediate' option.
 
This allows ending recovery as a consistent state has been reached. Without
this, there was no easy way to e.g restore an online backup, without
replaying any extra WAL after the backup ended.
 
MauMau and me.

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Win a book contest – PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to

pg backup book cover

Around the time that Xzilla wrote about the book, Packt contacted me and asked for a review.

Since I generally don't really read technical books, I declined the offer, but Sandy from Packt was very persistent, and asked if I could inform about book giveaway contest.

The book is definitely PostgreSQL related, and Xzilla suggested to check it out, so here it goes:

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OmniPITR 0.7.0

Just released new version of OmniPITR.

This version has one important new feature: when you're calling omnipitr-backup-slave, it will make backups only of required xlog files, and not, as previously, of all in walarchive directory.

This is important, especially in case you have multiple slaves, or you keep shared long-term walarchive. Previously – backups would get all files from walarchive (-s option to omnipitr-backup-slave), but now, it picks just the ones that are needed.

On somehow related note – I will be working now, finally, to get omnipitr-monitor functionality working.