David Steele

> what is 'tape' ? In this case I am using "tape" to denote the method of backup/retrieval, i.e. that it must be serialized, as was common last time I...

It should be possible to change the configuration rules to support this. We'll look at it for the C migration.

We can improve handling for this in pgBackRest, but for now you'll just need to update the links to remove the `..`.

> I only see logs in the postgresql log so maybe the async process is not even getting spawned ? That seems likely. Try running the async command directly (pulled...

Can you post the async logs from when you ran it directly? I suspect you are getting some sort of option warning which is messing things up. Should be `/var/log/pgbackrest/main-archive-get-async.log`.

It's not possible (at least with the current repo format) to make this operation atomic. It is possible to make it idempotent but that's not on the roadmap at the...

You can find info on building the docs here: https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#testing-the-documentation. The source is in https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/tree/main/doc/xml. I tried these commands on CentOS 7 and Rocky 8 and they ran fine. But...

It is not a great idea to mix WAL from a failed cluster with what is required for recovery. First, earlier WAL required may be have been recycled. Second, there...

Yes, there have been a lot of changes in this area over the years and it can be hard to keep the documentation up to date. It was mostly written...

> First question: the documentation suggests that when doing an incremental backup, it verifies whether or not it needs to include a file in the backup using checksums. By default...