Re: Help with data transfer please

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:30:26PM -0400, terry(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com wrote:
> It is my understanding that copying the files that reside in the data
> directory are not sufficient for a backup/restore, (because there are file
> pointers within the data files I believe, pointers which are no longer valid
> on a different server because different blocks get assigned to different
> files). Therefore it follows that an rsync would not be sufficient to keep
> the database in sync.

Hmm. That sounds plausible. But you can tar up a data directory,
and restore it later on a different physical device, and it will
work. Or, at least, it has worked for me. This, only if the
postmaster is shut down. But maybe my case was just a fluke.
Someone who knows should weigh in.

A

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