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From: "Gnanakumar" <gnanam@zoniac.com>
To: "'Guillaume Lelarge'" <guillaume@lelarge.info>,
	"'Kevin Grittner'" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
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Subject: Re: Database clone stuck in the middle
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 11:56:34 +0530
Organization: Zoniac Software Private Limited
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Thank you very much for sharing this "screen" command.  That's really
helpful.

-----Original Message-----
From: Guillaume Lelarge [mailto:guillaume@lelarge.info]=20
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:32 PM
To: Kevin Grittner
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; gnanam@zoniac.com
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Database clone stuck in the middle

Le 02/04/2010 15:38, Kevin Grittner a =E9crit :
> "Gnanakumar" <gnanam@zoniac.com> wrote:
> =20
>> I connect to our database which is hosted remotely using PuTTY
>> thro SSH protocol. =20
> =20
>> my Internet got disconnected in the middle,
>> so database cloning was also stuck in the middle.
> =20
>> 4. Considering this Internet disconnection problem, what is the
>> safest way to clone a database using CREATE DATABASE WITH TEMPLATE
>> command, so that this will not happen in the future?
> =20
> You putty to the server and run psql from a shell on the database
> server?
> =20
> If so, try putting the word "nohup" in front of "psql" -- that tells
> the program to keep running even if the connection is lost.  (It is
> short for "no hangup", I believe.)
> =20

Or use screen.


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Guillaume.
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