Re: Using PITR Backup and Recovery

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: <beer(at)cmu(dot)edu>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using PITR Backup and Recovery
Date: 2007-08-14 15:35:10
Message-ID: 1187105710.4162.23.camel@ebony.site
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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:52 -0400, beer(at)cmu(dot)edu wrote:
> We recently moved to PITR backup and recovery solution as defined in
> the documentation. Our basic setup executes the backup start command,
> and then takes a snapshot of the filesystem and backups wal files.
> However, we have database files ( not wal files ) that change while
> the system is in backup mode. This happens during every backup. Is
> this normal?

It's OK if they change; thats the whole point of HOT backup - you can
just continue working while we take the backup.

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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