From: CS_DBA <cs_dba@consistentstate.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: copy / backup question - copying a data directory while the db is shutdown
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:46:53 -0600
Message-ID: <5330B5DD.7030805@consistentstate.com> (raw)
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Hi All;
If I shutdown a HOT standby slave (via the -m fast command) can I then
copy the data directory to a "backup" location and be guaranteed that
the backup copy will start?
For some reason I thought there were issues (or potential issues) with
this method and a PITR based recovery approach was a better guarantee
that the copy will start
Thoughts?
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