On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:25 AM, JJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use wal-e for the full backups only for the time being > without the streaming wal backups. Is this possible? > > I tried to do just a backup push on the primary production database. This > completed fine. > > I then on the dev db tried to do a backup fetch from the newly pushed > backup. However, I'm unable to start the dev db once I see the "complete" > message in the pg_log. The error upon starting is > > > invalid checkpoint record > > could not locate required checkpoint record > > > How can I use the backup-push feature and bring up a database in a different > environment with backup-fetch? The only way it seems to work if I using the > streaming wals and ensure this is configured.
You must archive WAL. That's because the backup is taken while the system is on-line and it needs to perform crash recovery to become consistent. If you don't want to continuously archive, you'll have to find a way to ensure WAL is archived only when the backup is running, and then turn it off after the backup is off. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wal-e" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
