Re: Incremental Refresh - PostgreSQL 9.2

From: "drum(dot)lucas(at)gmail(dot)com" <drum(dot)lucas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Incremental Refresh - PostgreSQL 9.2
Date: 2016-02-23 22:25:51
Message-ID: CAE_gQfXDYSJBZppMW2T8HNF1-K2dPfsg8aOz0g_73GfCgmu6UA@mail.gmail.com
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> ​You cannot accomplish incremental updates if your choice of tool is
> pg_dump. The only way to do a true incremental would be to rely upon
> something like rsync on the data directory while the master server is
> offline.
>
> So, assuming that is not an option, you should probably look at the
> various true replication solutions that are available and see which of
> those might serve as an alternative.
>
> ​David J.
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>
The point is: I don't want a slave server - I want a full copy from my
MASTER server.

So replication wouldn't be a nice solution...

Can I do a rsync from /data folder from my SLAVE into my TEST server?
To do that, both postgres process should be stopped, right?

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