From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Backup?
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:23:30 -0500
Message-ID: <1062714209.17023.143.camel@haggis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34qzsthh4.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com>
References: <1062703912.28376.31.camel@pennywise.havleik.no>
<m34qzsthh4.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com>
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:40, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Bjørn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no> writes:
>
> > Should one use pg_dumpall to backup the database or is it more practical
> > to just copy the data directory?
>
> The data directory will not be consistent unless the server is
> stopped. pg_dumpall works well, produces a consistent backup and is
> easily portable to a different machine architecture if need be.
And it's smaller than the data/ directory, especially when "-F c"
option is used.
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