Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BACF6323D6 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 12:33:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68284-01 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 15:33:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com (mail-pw0-f46.google.com [209.85.160.46]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084AA632246 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 12:33:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: by pwi5 with SMTP id 5so873824pwi.19 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:33:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wtRh9fAEr1dgbZr7ECGm6gXiFM4609QC3HkFoldPwhU=; b=AFLHIoV0PVmkAJEFP/NulIZzfT+CAYiIwNPI32d0qRCwnW1KUjJcdIvFoFJ1zwOwSK MJ9pECmt5V+cDQnwirOdMCoqpYGatDREU4uioxvKtSd5yeMIbNBaxN+umL39FpWL0DiI uJR1JRYPnowsX3xX76NBfWjd7s8RrO/BJPis4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=POulrDJx4zVv3GMJb5JRuRvh3p5dlLdAEx9L4qpZlNCRwpvVKDy6CVxl2jRtiadBL4 zTRF10eM+gTOkNTp6H8ItFSJAUev5Vgu8SFiAySzRY4DJcvXaNPrM81cYoqBIfn0vCk3 L/++QCi4NFIUiEui9o2ROS2ncaQ8XW5+nFg0E= Received: by 10.114.33.18 with SMTP id g18mr10417233wag.2.1273073585488; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Vibhor-Kumars-MacBook-Pro.local ([121.241.184.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n32sm34898801wae.22.2010.05.05.08.33.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 May 2010 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BE18FAC.2070303@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 21:03:00 +0530 From: Gmail Account User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: raghu ram CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PITR backup & Restore issue References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.405 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.723, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=0.77 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/62 X-Sequence-Number: 34535 On 05/05/10 8:57 PM, raghu ram wrote:

Hi Postgres Guru's,

Is it possible to use the Hot Backup (PITR Backup) of PostgreSQL on an Operating system to restore the database on other Operating system.

Thanks & Regards

Raghu

Nope, Hot Backup (Online Backup) of PostgreSQL, on One OS/File System is not compatible with the Other OS/FileSystem.

If you want to Move the Database from One OS/File System to other OS/Filesystem then use pg_dump/pg_dumpall command to take the backup of database.

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Thanks & Regards,
Vibhor Kumar