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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:40:00 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Fuchsberger?= <juergen.fuchsberger@uni-graz.at>
Organization: Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
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To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
CC: CS_DBA <cs_dba@consistentstate.com>
Subject: Re: copy / backup question - copying a data directory while
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Hi,

On 03/24/2014 11:46 PM, CS_DBA wrote:
> Hi All;
>=20
> 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?

Yes, but you must also backup the WAL archive from which you are
recovering (in case you are using file based log shipping and not
streaming replication). For streaming replication I don't know if it work=
s.

Also you should check if postgres really stopped, since on high load
even the fast option can fail to stop it. Look here on how to do this:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/53040588.9020803@coxinc.com
>=20
> 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
>=20
>=20
> Thoughts?
>=20
Info about other options appreciated.
>=20
>=20

Best,
Juergen

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| J=FCrgen Fuchsberger, M.Sc.
| Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change
| University of Graz


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