| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Prabakaran, Vaishnavi" <vaishnavip(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: New option in pg_basebackup to exclude pg_log files during base backup |
| Date: | 2014-04-09 15:14:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20140409151447.GV5822@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:
> > So it'd be an array, and by default you'd have something like:
> > basebackup_skip_path = $log_directory
> > ?
> >
> > Maybe use it to skip backup labels by default as well.
> > basebackup_skip_path = $log_directory, $backup_label_files
> >
>
> I hadn't considered any details, but yes, someting along that line. And
> then you could also include arbitrary filenames or directories should you
> want. E.g. if you use the data directory to store your torrents or
> something.
Man, that's a great idea. Database servers have lots of diskspace in
that partition, so it should work really well. Thanks!
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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