Re: Hot Backup with rsync fails at pg_clog if under load

On Sep29, 2011, at 17:44 , Linas Virbalas wrote:
>> I also checked what rsync does when a file vanishes after rsync computed the
>> file list, but before it is sent. rsync 3.0.7 on OSX, at least, complains
>> loudly, and doesn't sync the file. It BTW also exits non-zero, with a special
>> exit code for precisely that failure case.
>
> To be precise, my script has logic to accept the exit code 24, just as
> stated in PG manual:
>
> Docs> For example, some versions of rsync return a separate exit code for
> Docs> "vanished source files", and you can write a driver script to accept
> Docs> this exit code as a non-error case.

Oh, cool. I was about to suggest that we add something along these lines
to the docs - guess I should RTFM from time to time ;-)

best regards,
Florian Pflug

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