From: Vladimir Rusinov <vladimir@greenmice.info>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: File system level backup with more than one cluster folders
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:58:55 +0300
Message-ID: <f6fdfb550812110358q4dc40063vd79e355805e63523@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081210101304.GB21211@easy2.in-chemnitz.de>
References: <493F6F40.9060906@its.fh-giessen.de>
<20081210101304.GB21211@easy2.in-chemnitz.de>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Tino Schwarze <postgresql@tisc.de> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> > I am newbie with PostgreSQL. I have separate table space for my
> > databases, which is located in separate folder, which is different to
> > default. I would like to carry out file system level backup. Do I need
> > to backup only folder with my table space or all pg folders.
>
> Do you know that a file system level backup is only useful if
>
> a) the postgres instance is stopped
> or
> b) your are using WAL archiving and have an appropiate setup to tell PG
> about backup starts and ends
c) your are using lvm (or zfs) snapshots and know that postgres would run
recovery after backup restore.
--
Vladimir Rusinov
http://greenmice.info/
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