[Bucardo-general] new Bucardo installation with a 1TB DB

Lucas Possamai drum.lucas at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 22:40:40 UTC 2019


On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 09:18, Lucas Possamai <drum.lucas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:09 AM David Christensen <david at endpoint.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > We're moving our EC2 Postgres 1TB DB to RDS and decided to use Bucardo,
>> as it supports multiple PG versions.
>> > We have a PG 9.2 cluster, and instead of upgrading it, we'll use
>> Bucardo to replicate to a PG 9.6, then use DMS or pg_dump to restore it in
>> RDS.
>> >
>> > Because of the size of the current 9.2 DB, I cannot stop the
>> application so it doesn't write to the DB while I do pg_dump and restore it
>> in the new bucardo slave.
>> >
>> > So, I thought I would do something like this:
>> >       • Install Bucardo and add large tables to a pushdelta sync
>> >       • Copy the tables to the new server (e.g. with pg_dump)
>> >       • Startup Bucardo and catch things up (e.g. copy all rows changes
>> since step 2)
>> > Steps for the above would be pretty much like this article; if I'm not
>> mistaken.
>> >
>> > My questions are:
>> >       • Is it the right approach? do you guys have any other
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Yeah, as long as you’re doing a one-way sync (master -> target) it’s
>> sufficient to start capturing the deltas (generally by creating a sync with
>> auto-kick off), then pg_dump the data, then kick the sync/set autokick
>> until you’re caught up then cutover the app as needed.
>>
>>
> First of all, thanks for your reply!
> That would be pushdelta <https://bucardo.org/pushdelta/>, correct?
>


Hi.

When using "type=pushdelta" on bucardo 5.4.1, I get the error: Unknown
option 'type'
What is the equivalent of "type=pushdelta" on Bucardo 5? Couldn't find that
on the documentation.


Cheers.
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