Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8F81337B80 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:55:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74521-06 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:55:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.48]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE1D1337B7E for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:55:46 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 28966 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2011 14:55:46 -0000 Received: from 25-76-42-72.skybeam.com (HELO [192.168.2.16]) (scott_ribe@killerbytes.com@[72.42.76.25]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 18 Jan 2011 14:55:46 -0000 Subject: Re: Migrating a live database Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Scott Ribe In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:55:45 -0700 Cc: Vladislav Geller , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <50701857-CC06-4E11-8210-62DB365A6DB9@elevated-dev.com> References: <58123383-B024-48E8-B863-651E455A3861@vincorex.ch> To: Vladimir Rusinov X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/112 X-Sequence-Number: 36552 On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > If sync won't finish in 9 hours, abort it, run pg_stop_backup() and = continue next day - I assume most of the data won't change, so rsync = won't re-transfer it (but will calculate hash and compare). And there's --partial in case you have to stop it in the middle of a = large file. --=20 Scott Ribe scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice