From: | "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | "Johannes Konert" <jkonert(at)t3go(dot)de> |
Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir? |
Date: | 2007-06-11 08:30:48 |
Message-ID: | 1181550648.3620.83.camel@silverbirch.site |
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On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:03 +0200, Johannes Konert wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Anything else in there you should be grabbing via pg_dump anyway.
> So you suggest not to backup the filesystem-files, but to do a dump
> instead? Does this work together with PITR as described in 23.3.
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP)
> I want to make a full backup every night of a heavy DB while it is
> running. Combined with short-term-WAL-archiving. Getting the WAL-files
> is easy by using the config-parameter archive_command, but to copy and
> backup the "base backup" once a day is impossible if I cannot access the
> data-files.
> Will the described backup&restore work as well with a dump + WAL-files?
> Then I could forget about copying the file-system-files....
No, it won't, so I'm not sure what Josh means.
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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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