| From: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Using cp to back up a database? |
| Date: | 2017-10-09 16:55:31 |
| Message-ID: | CAMkU=1zvrR_HHNYbnBQQTVQP=YHoxh08M-V04aXiJwjCwZNfmw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Sure I want a consistent database. Why doesn't?
>
> But log shipping requires you to rsync/var/lib/pgsql/data to the remote
> server, and that's consistent, so why wouldn't rsync to a local directory
> also be consistent?
>
But it isn't consistent by itself. That is why the log shipping is
required (or an equivalent method of keeping the necessary logs around), to
fix up the consistency.
Cheers,
Jeff
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