From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
To: Rural Hunter <ruralhunter@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Backup Question for Point-in-Time Recovery
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:30:48 +0200
Message-ID: <1315675848.15665.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6B9C2E.1060601@gmail.com>
References: <4E6B9C2E.1060601@gmail.com>
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 01:19 +0800, Rural Hunter wrote:
> I'm making a base backup with 9.1rc by following 24.3.3 in manual:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/continuous-archiving.html
> 1. SELECT pg_start_backup('label');
> 2. perform file system backup with tar
> 3. SELECT pg_stop_backup();
>
> But when I was performing step 2, I got warning from tar command that
> file was changed when tar was reading file on some files such as
> 'postgres/base/16405/5659097'. Will I get a good backup in this case?
>
Yes. But note that you can use pg_basebackup in 9.1. It does everything
needed to have a complete file backup.
--
Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.infohttp://www.dalibo.com
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