Re: 2.5TB Migration from SATA to SSD disks - PostgreSQL 9.2

On 9/12/16 3:24 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> The man page you quote seems clear to me that setting it to 1, rather
> than leaving it at 0, makes the opportunity for corruption wider, not
> narrower.

Yeah, I actually read it backwards. :/ I don't see how --modify-window
is helpful at all here; you need to use --ignore-times.

> I thought that David's "-1" suggestions was tongue in cheek. But it
> turns out that that actually does work. Of course, it works by forcing
> every file to be copied, which removes the point of using this over
> pg_basebackup, but nonetheless it would preserve the integrity of the data.

AFAIK pg_basebackup blindly copies all data files, while rsync will
transfer only the parts of the files that have actually changed (see
--block-size). If the source and destination are on different servers,
that can mean less data transferred over the network.
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