On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 23:43 -0500, David Steele wrote: > > > > [about managing backups from pre- and post-file-system-backup scrips] > > I have come up with some sample code here: > > https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/safe-backup > > > > This just uses bash and psql. > > Does that look reasonably safe? > > > > It's probably too big to be introduced into the documentation, but maybe > > we could add it to the Wiki. > > My bash-fu is not all that great, but it seems to me you could do this > all in one script and forgo the table entirely. Just do the file copy > at about line 60 in pgpre.sh. > > It does look workable to me, just wonder if it could be simpler.
Thanks for having a look. Yes, it looks appallingly complicated. Sure, if I knew there was a file to write, and I knew where to write it, I could do it in the "pre" script. But since I have no idea how the actual backup is performed and how the "backup_label" file is going to be saved, I thought it best to return the information to the caller and persist it somewhere, and only the "post" script can actually return the information. Yours, Laurenz Albe
