Re: win32: how to backup (dump does not work)

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: fkater(at)googlemail(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: win32: how to backup (dump does not work)
Date: 2008-02-27 09:09:33
Message-ID: 20080227090933.GB5916@svr2.hagander.net
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:30:02PM +0100, Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> > AFAIK stopping the server, zipping data dir, and restarting
> > the server creates a zip file which is not easily portable to
> > other computers due to some ntfs file system permission problems.
> >
> IIRC you have to re-assign owner and change permissions after you copy your
> data dir to the new server.

You don't need to reassign owner normally - we don't care about that. And
if you extract into an existing directory, it should inherit it fine :-)
But true, if you extract into a nwe directory, you may need to change the
permissions.

//Magnus

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