Re: Postgresql 17 incremental backup

Hi Guillaume, thanks for the answer.

I've tried with -i and --incremental , and the results are the same. In both cases without "="  

[postgres@buda viernes]$ pg_basebackup -c fast -P -D /var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/viernes –-incremental  /var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/base_plano/backup_manifest

pg_basebackup: error: demasiados argumentos en la línea de órdenes (el primero es «–-incremental»)
pg_basebackup: consejo: Pruebe «pg_basebackup --help» para mayor información.

[postgres@buda viernes]$ pg_basebackup -c fast -P -D /var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/viernes –i /var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/base_plano/backup_manifest
pg_basebackup: error: demasiados argumentos en la línea de órdenes (el primero es «–i»)
pg_basebackup: consejo: Pruebe «pg_basebackup --help» para mayor información.

regards

MF

El lun, 6 ene 2025 a las 16:42, Guillaume Lelarge (<guillaume@lelarge.info>) escribió:

Hi,

Le lun. 6 janv. 2025 à 20:23, Mauricio Fernandez <mmauricio.fernandez@gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi admins, I'm trying to execute an incremental backup and I'm getting the following error

[postgres@buda ~]$ pg_basebackup -c fast -P -D $PGBKP/fisicos/viernes –-incremental=$PGBKP/fisicos/base_plano/backup_manifest

pg_basebackup: error: demasiados argumentos en la línea de órdenes (el primero es «–-incremental=/var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/base_tar/backup_manifest»)
pg_basebackup: consejo: Pruebe «pg_basebackup --help» para mayor información.

The literal translation of the error message is: pg_basebackup: error: too many arguments in the command line (the first is «–-incremental=/var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/base_tar/backup_manifest»)

It looks like it thinks that  "--incremental=/var/lib/pgsql/17/backups/devadv01/fisicos/base_tar/backup_manifest" is one argument rather than an argument and its value. Try getting rid of the equal value. Maybe it will help.

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Guillaume.