Re: Snapshot as Backup

From: Sai Hertz And Control Systems <sank89(at)sancharnet(dot)in>
To: emurphy1(at)email(dot)arizona(dot)edu
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Snapshot as Backup
Date: 2004-01-13 20:30:45
Message-ID: 40045575.60007@sancharnet.in
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Dear Ed Murphy ,

> and all the PostgreSQL files. My question is if I restore this
> snapshot will PostgreSQL work? I know if doing a typical file system
> backup of PostgreSQL I must first stop the postmaster or the backup
> will not produce a useable PostgreSQL system. Is it necessary to stop
> the postmaster for this snapshot backup also?
>
Yes if the snapshot (filesystem) backup and restore is performed when
postmaster is NOT running you can reproduce it.
I have done this with command
dump <-- for file system backup
Filesystem ext3

Regards
Vishal Kashyap

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