Re: backup file system

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeremy Buchmann <jeremy(at)wellsgaming(dot)com>
Cc: dan(at)langille(dot)org, "Leong, Fushan" <fushan(dot)leong(at)SonoSite(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: backup file system
Date: 2001-11-01 04:28:05
Message-ID: 17307.1004588885@sss.pgh.pa.us
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>> Why do you want to back up the file system instead of using pg_dump?

There is some discussion of this issue in the PG documentation;
see
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/backup-file.html

regards, tom lane

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