RE: Re: Backups WAS: 2 gig file size limit

From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
To: "'Joseph Shraibman'" <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Re: Backups WAS: 2 gig file size limit
Date: 2001-07-10 19:55:19
Message-ID: 3705826352029646A3E91C53F7189E320166BA@sectorbase2.sectorbase.com
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> > pg_ctl stop
> > tar cfz - $PGDATA >someplace
> > pg_ctl start
> >
> But that would mean I would have to have all my programs
> detect that the database went down and make new connections.

You'd better to handle lost connections anyway.

> I would rather that postgres just lock all the files and
> do the tar.

Not suitable for online backup to bother with implementation.
We hope to have WAL-based backup and restore (BAR) in some
future.

Vadim

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