On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM Colin 't Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > What is the best way to move a pgBackrest repo? > > It was configured as /var/lib/pgbackrest, but we want to move it to > /data/pbackrest to get it off the root partition. > > It is being written to continually by archivers from several servers. > Since access is over ssh, there's no server component that we can just stop > for the duration. > The first thing I'd do is start rsyncing from /var/lib/pgbackrest to /data/pbackrest. I don't, though, know enough about remote PgBackRest configuration to know whether PG on the db servers needs to be stopped for the moment when you reconfigure pgbr on the repo server. -- Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce. Don't boil me, I'm still alive. <Redacted> lobster!
