| From: | Fujii Masao <fujii(dot)masao(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: File system snapshots for multiple file systems |
| Date: | 2008-04-08 06:05:32 |
| Message-ID: | 47FB0B2C.7010103@oss.ntt.co.jp |
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 1. call pg_start_backup('foo')
> 2. tar/etc. the whole data directory, except for pg_xlog
> 3. tar pg_xlog
> 4. call pg_stop_backup()
>
> If we just made sure that we don't delete or recycle any WAL files while
> the backup is being taken, that would work, right?
When is the backup history file for PITR backed up?
Just after pg_stop_backup()? Next backup?
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