From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)cupid(dot)suninternet(dot)com> |
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To: | "Stephen Lawrence Jr(dot)" <logart(at)mail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: disk backups |
Date: | 2000-06-29 13:23:02 |
Message-ID: | 395B4DB6.4B745039@cupid.suninternet.com |
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Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote:
>
> I think the way most people do that is to have pg_dump or pg_dumpall make a
> dump of the databases into the postgres directory each nite. That way, when
> you do a full disk backup, the database dumps would be backed up as well.
Is there a better way? Here pg_dumping the DB takes over half an hour
(mainly because pg_dump chews all available memory). It would be nicer
if we knew that tarring it up would work also...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mikeo" <mikeo(at)spectrumtelecorp(dot)com>
> Subject: [GENERAL] disk backups
>
> > hi,
> > would someone be so kind as to comment on restoring a database from
> > file backups?
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)cupid(dot)suninternet(dot)com>
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/
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