Re: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> From: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Subject: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
> To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:53 PM
> From the following link:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP
>
> Step 3 says to perform the back up.
>
> Does this mean a File System Backup of the Data
> directory?
> OR
> Does this mean performing a pg_dumpall and backing up
> the dump file?
>
is a file system backup of he data directory
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.