Backup and Restore
the backup history file will be named something like
0000000100001234000055CD.007C9330.backup>. (The second part of
this file name stands for an exact position within the WAL file, and can
- ordinarily be ignored.) Once you have safely archived the backup dump
- file, you can delete all archived WAL segments with names numerically
+ ordinarily be ignored.) Once you have safely archived this WAL
+ segment file, you can delete all archived WAL segments with names numerically
preceding this one. The backup history file is just a small text file.
It contains the label string you gave to pg_start_backup>, as
well as the starting and ending times of the backup. If you used the