S3 Objects

WAL-G stores its files in the bucket you set in the WAL-G configuration.

Three fields on a Cluster Backup (WAL-G) record are enough to find any of them:

• the S3 Bucket (#1)
• the Cluster Backup Name (#2)
• the WAL-G Backup Name (#3)

Open the bucket in whatever tool you use — the AWS console in the examples below. The numbers below match the annotations on the screenshots.

Open the S3 Bucket (#1). At the root you find a folder named after the Cluster Backup Name (#2). Inside it, two folders:

• basebackups_… (#3) — the cluster backups
• wal_… (#4) — the WAL Segments

Inside basebackups_

One folder per cluster backup, each named after that backup's WAL-G Backup Name (#3 on the Cluster Backup form).

That folder (#1) holds the files and subfolders that make up one cluster backup.

Inside wal_

Two kinds of file:

• the WAL Segments
• one file per cluster backup

An active cluster produces one WAL file per minute. A quiet one produces them irregularly — which is the case below.