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From: scott ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does Postgres ever write to tables without file system timestamps getting updated?
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:23:02 -0600
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To be clear, for potential future readers, just using checksum is not enough to back up a live database. You still have to use pg_start_backup and pay attention to its documentation re WAL files.

> On Jun 6, 2017, at 8:54 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> 
> This is why it is not safe to do incremental backups of PostgreSQL with
> rsync without using checksums.

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Scott Ribe
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