Re: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Richard Broersma
<richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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?

File system backup. You tar up the database folder except pg_xlog
(and maybe pg_log). You then expand it on the other side (making sure
to set up pg_xlog properly). If you ever want to mess around with log
shipping I strongly suggest you go through the motions of setting up a
warm standby vi the pg_standby utility and practice popping the
standby out of recovery. It will give you a good understanding of the
process.

merlin