From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: ik@postgresql-consulting.com
Cc: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>
Cc: David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:55:18 -0700
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On 03/25/2014 08:21 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I would say that's the one thing that rsync is *not*. pg_basebackup
> takes care of a lot of things under the hood. rsync is a lot more
> complicated, in particular in failure scenarios, since you have to
> manually deal with pg_start/stop_backup().
>
> There are definitely reasons you'd prefer rsync over pg_basebackup, but
> I don't believe simplicity is one of them.
>
> //Magnus
Good God man... since when do you top post!
Well there are tools that use rsync to solve those issues :P. We even
have one that does multi-threaded rsync so you can pull many Terabytes
in very little time (relatively).
JD
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