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Incremental Backup via WAL archive

От
christine sarsonas
Дата:
Good day Team.

I would like to have your insights regarding my above-mentioned inquiry.
I'm currently assigned to perform a DBA task and have a look at the incremental backup routine using WAL archives (we're currently using Postgresql for Windows) which will be maintained as a daily backup.

The objective of the daily backup is to have a small file/files of new data or changes in the database that can be played or resumed using the related (nearest) basebackup and afterwards it can be kept and archived for a long time.

Recently, I performed a test on one of the servers and found out that within 1 hour, the overall wal files is around 1GB already as the main DB is just 900+MB if backup using pg_dump. 

What would be the best approach for daily backups? We have 2 systems that are 9GB in size already (very heavy to store on a daily basis).

Looking forward to your best recommendation.

Thank you.


Re: Incremental Backup via WAL archive

От
Andrey Borodin
Дата:

> On 29 Jun 2022, at 13:15, christine sarsonas <ctsarsonas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What would be the best approach for daily backups?
Hi!

It's very easy to setup Point-in-time recovery with PostgreSQL. The Postgres ecosystem have a lot of different PIT
solutions.For example, you can use WAL-G. [0] 
But for Windows you will need to build exe file manually. I think there must be other tools providing exe binaries out
ofthe box. 

Thank you!

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

[0] https://supabase.com/blog/2020/08/02/continuous-postgresql-backup-walg