On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Vicky Soni - Quipment India <vicky.soni@quipment.nl> wrote: > 1. Took base backup from hot standby > 2. WAL Archive from Master > 3. Configure recovery.conf and start new instance in standby mode. > It worked. > I just wanted it to be verified by some senior community member that, Is it ok strategy for PITR or not? Considering I want to take base backup from Read Only Replica.
Assuming your master is shipping WALs to the to-be-created replica, taking a base backup from an existing replica is perfectly fine.