| From: | "John J(dot) Urbaniak" <jjurban(at)attglobal(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Backups |
| Date: | 2005-07-14 15:51:00 |
| Message-ID: | 42D689E4.1060903@attglobal.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>"John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban(at)attglobal(dot)net> writes:
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>>I have a question about backups:
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>>Is it ok simply to zip the contents of E:\PGSQLDATA to a zip file and
>>store this file on a CD or DVD?
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>Yes, *if* you shut down the postmaster while making the backup.
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>See
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html
>for discussion --- what you propose is the "file system backup"
>approach.
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> regards, tom lane
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Thank you for the quick reply. I think I am going to like working with
PostGreSQL. The documentation refers to "tar" - I just wanted to make
sure that zip would work as well. I am using Rexx, so I think I can
write a CMD to
1. Stop the postmaster
2. Vacuum the database
3. Zip the directory
4. Write the zip file to CD or DVD
5. Start postmaster again
Again, thanks.
John
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