Postgres incremental backups per db (not per cluster)

On 9/23/21 2:57 PM, Jaime Solorzano wrote:

According to the WAL Point-in-time recovery and incremental backup
documentation, pg_basebackup and wals are used to take backups and
incremental backups of a running PostgreSQL cluster.

I wonder if there is a way to take incremental backups per database
instead of the entire cluster.

You're not the first to ask (I wasn't the first either...), and not the
first to hear said, "it's not possible".

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Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.

On 9/23/21 12:57 PM, Jaime Solorzano wrote:

According to the WAL Point-in-time recovery and incremental backup
documentation, pg_basebackup and wals are used to take backups and
incremental backups of a running PostgreSQL cluster.

I wonder if there is a way to take incremental backups per database
instead of the entire cluster.

You already know the answer to that:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69304047/postgres-incremental-backups-per-db-not-per-cluster

Thanks !

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

Thank you !

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From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 02:37 PM
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Postgres incremental backups per db (not per cluster)

On 9/23/21 2:57 PM, Jaime Solorzano wrote:

According to the WAL Point-in-time recovery and incremental backup documentation, pg_basebackup and wals are used to take backups and incremental backups of a running PostgreSQL cluster.

I wonder if there is a way to take incremental backups per database instead of the entire cluster.

You're not the first to ask (I wasn't the first either...), and not the first to hear said, "it's not possible".

--
Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.

Thanks !

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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 03:56 PM
To: Jaime Solorzano <jaisol@hotmail.com>; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Postgres incremental backups per db (not per cluster)

On 9/23/21 12:57 PM, Jaime Solorzano wrote:

According to the WAL Point-in-time recovery and incremental backup
documentation, pg_basebackup and wals are used to take backups and
incremental backups of a running PostgreSQL cluster.

I wonder if there is a way to take incremental backups per database
instead of the entire cluster.

You already know the answer to that:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69304047/postgres-incremental-backups-per-db-not-per-cluster

Thanks !

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com