| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Streaming a base backup from master |
| Date: | 2010-09-03 11:28:12 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTikc-LOU2jDVh8uXQynFPdCSRzv-=g8KVkGAdVxn@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Here's a WIP patch. It adds a new "TAKE_BACKUP" command to the replication
> command set. Upon receiving that command, the master starts a COPY, and
> streams a tarred copy of the data directory to the client. The patch
> includes a simple command-line tool, pg_streambackup, to connect to a server
> and request a backup that you can then redirect to a .tar file or pipe to
> "tar x".
Cool. Can you add a TODO to build in code to un-tar the archive? tar
is not usually found on Windows systems, and as we already have tar
extraction code in pg_restore it could presumably be added relatively
painlessly.
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