From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com>
Cc: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au>
Cc: Dominic Carlucci <carlucci@cae.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: carlucci@cae.ca
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Backup
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:34:05 +0100
Message-ID: <20080131143405.GC21660@svana.org> (raw)
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:28:48PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> That sentence has no place in any discussion about "backup" because the
> risk is not just a few transactions, it is a corrupt and inconsistent
> database from which both old and new data would be inaccessible.
Hmm? I thought the whole point of a filesystem snapshot was that it's
the same as if the system crashed. And I was fairly sure we could
recover from that...
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
> -- John F Kennedy
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