>>>>> "DG" == Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> writes:
DG> With the low cost of disks, it might be a good idea to just copy to
DG> disks, that one can put back in.
Your file system copies will be broken, since they only work if
PG is shut down. For this very reason I don't even bother doing a
file system dump of the PG data partition.
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