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The seamlessness of this feature is quite amazing. Backups are usually a huge pain to deal with (I've recently been dealing with Postgres/Barman quite a bit). A
by manish_gill 8y ago
The seamlessness of this feature is quite amazing. Backups are usually a huge pain to deal with (I've recently been dealing with Postgres/Barman quite a bit). And disaster scenarios aside (for which AWS already does replications across regions), I think a frequent purpose of backups is really to do this "Undo", go back in time and pretend something didn't happen.
All this makes me really really wanna use Aurora. :)
- takeda 8y agoWhat issues did you have with barman? My experience with it was quite pleasant.
- manish_gill 8y agoVarious issues with recovery during testing. Missing WALs in the data files that `list-files` command says should be present. Backup failure because of a different number of parallel workers and so on. Combined with the fact that I had to write my own code to push it to S3 (no out of the box support). I suppose it works fine on its own for small to medium databases, and it's a fantastic product. I just wish it was a bit better. :)
- takeda 8y agoAbout WALs, did you use replication slots? That feature makes WAL logs only removed after all standbys process them. As for S3, WAL-E is probably what you wanted to use. Barman was more intended for on premises installation.