From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Streaming a base backup from master |
Date: | 2010-09-03 13:26:41 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTin95o=T9V+TETEepxR05X_8jzWK=uMej9Nd0oik@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 15:24, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Here's a WIP patch. It adds a new "TAKE_BACKUP" command to the replication
>>> command set. Upon receiving that command, the master starts a COPY, and
>>> streams a tarred copy of the data directory to the client. The patch
>>> includes a simple command-line tool, pg_streambackup, to connect to a server
>>> and request a backup that you can then redirect to a .tar file or pipe to
>>> "tar x".
>>
>> Cool. Can you add a TODO to build in code to un-tar the archive? tar
>> is not usually found on Windows systems, and as we already have tar
>> extraction code in pg_restore it could presumably be added relatively
>> painlessly.
>
> It seems like the elephant in the room here is updating an existing
> backup without recopying the entire data directory. Perhaps that's
> phase two, but worth keeping in mind...
I'd say that's a very different use-case, but still a very useful one
of course. It's probably going to be a lot more complex (it would
require bi-directional traffic, I think)...
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Magnus Hagander
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