From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:38:01 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Richard Broersma
<richard.broersma@gmail.com> wrote:
> From the following link:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP
>
> Step 3 says to perform the back up.
>
> Does this mean a File System Backup of the Data directory?
> OR
> Does this mean performing a pg_dumpall and backing up the dump file?
File system backup. You tar up the database folder except pg_xlog
(and maybe pg_log). You then expand it on the other side (making sure
to set up pg_xlog properly). If you ever want to mess around with log
shipping I strongly suggest you go through the motions of setting up a
warm standby vi the pg_standby utility and practice popping the
standby out of recovery. It will give you a good understanding of the
process.
merlin
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