On Sat, 2025-08-23 at 09:56 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote: > I'm archiving WAL files and taking basebackups. > > At some point, when I'm ready to delete the oldest basebackup directory, > I'll also of course need to run "pg_archivecleanup /Database/backups/wals mumble". > > The .backup file is not in the pg_wal.tar file, so how do I know which .backup file to use? One thing you can use is the "backup_label" file in the base backup. Its first line will look like START WAL LOCATION: 0/B000028 (file 00000001000000000000000B) You would have to extract the WAL file name from the text. Yours, Laurenz Albe
