Will barman automatically do a delta restore assuming the postgres server is stopped and the old cluster exists at the same location it's restoring to?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:59 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > * Arjun Ranade (ran...@nodalexchange.com) wrote: > > Yeah, that was one thing I was planning to try. The other potential > > solution is to use barman (we are using barman on all db servers > including > > standbys) to restore the latest backup to a VM and then take the pg_dump > > from there. But I was hoping there would be a way in the settings to > > prevent such a workaround. > > Performing a file-level backup and then restoring that and then > taking a pg_dump of restored cluster works quite well as a solution, in > my experience, even better is when you can do a delta restore over top > of the prior restore, updating just the files which were different, as > that can be much faster. > > Thanks! > > Stephen >
