X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2955A11F65C6 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:28:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19963-08 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:28:20 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from wolff.to (wolff.to [66.93.197.194]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C276211F60E5 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:28:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 19756 invoked by uid 500); 27 Apr 2006 13:31:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:31:30 -0500 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Ketema Harris Cc: Michael Stone , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Running on an NFS Mounted Directory Message-ID: <20060427133130.GA19320@wolff.to> Mail-Followup-To: Bruno Wolff III , Ketema Harris , Michael Stone , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <20060427130555.GE6159@wolff.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200604/640 X-Sequence-Number: 18724 On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:06:48 -0400, Ketema Harris wrote: > Yes, your right, I meant not have to do the backups from the db server > itself. I can do that within the storage device now, by allocating space > for it, and letting the device copy the data files on some periodic basis. Only if the database server isn't running or your SAN provides a way to provide a snapshot of the data at a particular instant in time.