Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0EE365027E for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:59:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91814-07 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:59:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from n6b.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (n6b.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.76]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE25A65029C for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:58:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [76.13.13.26] by n6.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Aug 2008 13:58:34 -0000 Received: from [76.13.10.166] by t3.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Aug 2008 13:58:34 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp107.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Aug 2008 13:58:34 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 228028.84644.bm@omp107.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 67723 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Aug 2008 13:58:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=VeiuySc8GNC4qkmYgYVi2vnNBZPbksrfuaz2KRoUAcum59sLt9y0ifY6mVMhJroFk9LQax9fKnGcrwafLKHkST5mIr742JVrjl8/rGDhhRap37IJu4HnDmsgq9m3Ot2Z8YTXDdJSJ21TCZrlR4QnWI9XX4KxXQPFk5cNqwZoNM8=; X-YMail-OSG: RcOrDvMVM1kw0qv1xfWvMjniZ3xd5BN9xhREPUpnjDhlPMhoSKtafxrgEF51ugy0JF7BdKN_k8nACxZcCh8bvFkVfeaorUY1ZQdSXqgw5hPbpBKMizAevMKdPBLJ7ME- Received: from [209.88.228.11] by web59516.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:58:33 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:58:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Lennin Caro Reply-To: lennin.caro@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, Richard Broersma In-Reply-To: <396486430808261553k6687500q19f4117b6c71ae3f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <23971.66132.qm@web59516.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200808/196 X-Sequence-Number: 30041 --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Richard Broersma wrote: > From: Richard Broersma > Subject: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question > To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:53 PM > 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? > is a file system backup of he data directory > -- > Regards, > Richard Broersma Jr.