On 09/04/2018 10:51 AM, David Steele wrote:
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> This will work, but I don't think it's what Ron is getting at.
>
> To be clear, it is not possible to restore a database into an *existing*
> cluster using pgBackRest selective restore. This is a limitation of
> PostgreSQL file-level backups.
>
> To do what Ron wants you would need to restore it to a new cluster, then
> use pg_dump to logically dump and restore it to whatever cluster you
> want it in. This still saves time since there is less to restore but is
> obviously not ideal.
That's exactly what I'm referring to.
Presumably I could restore it to a new cluster on the same VM via initdb on
a different port and PGDATA directory?
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