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 5B91F11F65C6 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:42:22 -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 27073-02 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:42:13 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.225]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A0711F65A1 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:42:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i32so1595737wra for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:42:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:user-agent:date:subject:from:to:cc:message-id:thread-topic:thread-index:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GSHswkVL1/WCBdNS4E7895xtEyr94U83iWbDMMHomBre2HquZYygNUCiKx4y18xsXVTDf0E7TV2BdFlRMK6qCO6rqrtl9Y5XtaGoX8bkMgcjhBdpbevIdvtqwvmxbw0h/LP7W7kpNMb6MHBqUtZwCabFJp+ZLuOS7s8bK3wwR0U= Received: by 10.54.123.12 with SMTP id v12mr2526556wrc; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:42:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.12? ( [72.156.236.193]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 11sm826720wrl.2006.04.27.06.42.11; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:42:11 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.3.060209 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:42:10 -0400 Subject: Re: Running on an NFS Mounted Directory From: Ketema Harris To: Bruno Wolff III CC: Michael Stone , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Running on an NFS Mounted Directory Thread-Index: AcZqAGHMoC+A0tXzEdqi1AARJHlfcA== In-Reply-To: <20060427133130.GA19320@wolff.to> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200604/642 X-Sequence-Number: 18726 The SAN has the snapshot capability. On 4/27/06 9:31 AM, "Bruno Wolff III" wrote: > 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.