Stopping/Resuming A Backup

[Chad Anderson]

I'm doing a large backup over an unreliable and slow network.
Occassionally, the network connection drops and I have to start the back
up again. Is there a way to have barman resume its backup instead of
marking it as failed? Since most of the work is by rsync and
pg_stop_backup() doesn't get run when the connection drops, can I just
restart the rsync command used, run pg_stop_backup() at the end, and
mark it as successful in the backup.info file in that base backup directory?

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Chad Anderson
Systems Operations Engineer
Zuercher Technologies, LLC

[Gabriele Bartolini]

Hi Chad,

  please look at this section in the tutorial: http://docs.pgbarman.org/#retry_of_copy_in_backup_recovery_operations

Cheers,

Gabriele

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[Chad Anderson]

That looks like it only works on a single run of the barman backup
command. I already had one fail without that option set and have about
500gigs I'd like to not copy again. Do I likely need to just start all
over and use that option by default next time so this doesn't happen
again or is there a way to get it to resume a backup already marked FAILED?

Thank you,

chad.a...@zuerchertech.com
605.274.6061 | 877.229.2205

[Gabriele Bartolini]

Hi Chad,

  At the moment there is no support for resuming a FAILED backup. I am sorry about that. :'(

Ciao,

Gabriele

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 PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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