* David Steele (da...@pgmasters.net) wrote: > On 2/10/16 9:44 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Hrmmm. If that's the case then perhaps you're right. I liked the > > general idea of not having to maintain a TCP connection during the > > entire backup (TCP connections can be annoyingly finicky in certain > > environments...), but I'm not sure it's worth a lot of additional > > complexity. > > Well, pgBackRest holds a connection to PostgreSQL through the entire > backup and will abort the backup if it is severed. The connection is > always held locally, though, even if the master backup process is on a > different server. I haven't gotten any reports of aborted backups due > to the connection failing.
Yeah, I know, I had been thinking it might be nice to not do that at some point in the future, but thinking on it further, we've already got a "pick up where you left off" capability with pgbackrest, so it's really not a huge deal if the backup fails and has to be restarted, and this does remove the need (or at least deprecate) to use the "stop an already-running backup if you find one" option that pgbackrest has. Thanks! Stephen
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