| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: AW: Big 7.1 open items |
| Date: | 2000-06-16 16:58:03 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0006161357370.722-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I'm just curious - when was the last time you restored a Postgres
> > > database in this piecemeal manner, and how often do you do it?
> >
> > More curios to me is that people seem to use physical file
> > based backup at all. Do they shutdown the postmaster during
> > backup or do they live with the fact that maybe not every
> > backup is a vital one?
>
> I sure hope they shut down the postmaster, or know that nothing is
> happening during the backup.
I do a backup based on a pg_dump snapshot at the time of the backup
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