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<title>Backup and Restore</title>

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If we take a backup of the standby server'sfileswhile it isfollowing

If we take a backup of the standby server'sdata directorywhile it isprocessing

logs shipped from the primary, we will be able to reload that data and

restart the standby's recovery process from the last restart point.

We no longer need to keep WAL files from before the restart point.