On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:39 PM, David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> wrote: > > > I read "open it for testing (or backups in this case)" as letting > recovery complete and promoting the cluster to a master before taking > the backup. > > Don, is that the case? If it is, I think there's a problem with or > without a timeline switch. If you confirm the backup is being taken as > above then I'll detail my concerns. >
Note that this is just for creating a couple of one-off backups to restore for our dev and pre-prod environments. Given that, I was going to open a new clone as its own cluster and take backups from that. The data would be the same though and suit purposes of the dev and pre-prod refreshes. If I were taking backups for the purpose of production backups, I would not do things this way. That is the eventual plan but right now we aren't ready to make the changes necessary in the production environment. -- Don Seiler www.seiler.us
