| From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Joey K(dot)" <pguser(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Seeking datacenter PITR backup suggestions |
| Date: | 2007-08-29 00:03:49 |
| Message-ID: | 20070829000349.GN1386@nasby.net |
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> In your scenario, what about using "cp -l" (or "ln") instead? Since the
> hard-link it is only creating a new pointer, it will be very fast and
> save a bunch of disk IO on your server and it doesn't appear that the
> tempdir is for much other than organizing purposes anyway.
Note that that will only work if you're creating the link on the same
filesystem, and having /tmp and your data in the same filesystem isn't
such a hot idea.
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Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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