Re-sending to group as well Jim :D Regarding testing backups, Well said Jim. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I will test regularly whatever we decide to put in place.
The below is from the 0.9.3 BDR documentation: "Because logical replication is only supported in streaming mode (rather than WAL archiving) it isn't suitable for point-in-time recovery. Logical replication may be used in conjunction with streaming physical replication and/or PITR, though; it is not necessary to choose one or the other." Am I misinterpreting that BDR uses Logical Decoding and as such I cannot perform PITR? On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: > On 11/18/15 9:46 AM, Will McCormick wrote: > >> What viable options exist for Backup & Recovery in a BDR environment? >> From the reading I have done PITR recovery is not an option with BDR. >> It's important to preface this that I have almost no exposure to >> postgres backup and recovery. Is PITR not an option with BDR? >> >> If a user fat fingers something and deletes records from a table without >> a where clause what is the correct course of action is to recover as >> much data as possible. What type of backup do I require to restore as >> much data as possible before the incident in a BDR environment. >> >> Sorry for such an open ended question. :D I'm continuing to read as I >> solicit feedback. >> >> Is there a document outlining recovery with BDR? >> > > I don't know why PITR wouldn't work with BDR, other than you can't use > binary backups across incompatible versions and BDR might be considered > incompatible with community Postgres. I would think it should still work > fine if you try to restore to a BDR server. > > That said, remember that if you are not regularly (preferably > automatically) testing your backups by doing a restore and testing the > restore, then you don't have a backup. You have a hope and a prayer. :) > -- > Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX > Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL > Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com >
