Commit 32eda624 authored by Jérôme Charaoui's avatar Jérôme Charaoui 🕯️
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howto/postgres: adjust BASE-IS-OLD 

Specify unmentioned possible cause which was observed, and fix command
to show data about known pgsql hosts and ports.
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### BASE-IS-OLD



WARNING: this procedure was taken from the [DSA wiki](https://dsa.debian.org/howto/postgres-backup/) and is

untested.



Our nagios check warns us when a backup server has not successfully

fetched a base backup recently. The causes often are that either the

postgres server or the backup host went down or was down during the

time of the weekly cronjob.

time of the weekly cronjob. The TLS certificate could have also been

renewed without the postgres daemon having been restarted.



To re-run a base backup for a specific cluster, log into the backup

server(s) (currently `bungei`), then find the port for the affected

cluster:



    cat /etc/dsa/postgresql-backup/base-backup-clusters

    tail /usr/local/bin/postgres-make-base-backups



Then run this backup in a screen: