Re: Postgresql Database cant start after restore using pgBackRest

On 6/25/23 18:53, Deo Felix wrote:
>   I am doing backup with pgbackrest in the database server every day at 
> night, I was testing to restore the backup in another server, the 
> restore was successfully however the database cant start
> 
> *pgbackrest --stanza=data --delta --log-level-console=detail restore*

Usually this happens when you promote a standby while the primary is 
still running. The promotion of the standby will create a new timeline 
(in this case 2) and then push WAL to the archive on this new timeline.

When you restore, PostgreSQL will try to recover to timeline 2 (by 
default) even though timeline 2 can't be reached from timeline 1 backups 
that were made after the promotion.

So, you need to instruct PostgreSQL to stay on timeline 1 rather than 
try to switch to timeline 2. You can do that by setting 
--target-timeline=current, i.e. stay on the timeline that was current 
when the backup was made.

Regards,
-David