Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Chander Ganesan" <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>
Cc: "[ADMIN]" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful
Date: 2009-07-16 22:23:56
Message-ID: 4A5F622C02000025000288B1@gw.wicourts.gov
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Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com> wrote:

> I suppose you just have to be careful to make a copy of the cluster
> before trying to start it up (lest you break an older or newer
> backup).

Yeah, you don't want to get confused and have the warm standby using a
hard link to a backup. The trick is to *only* use the cp -l from one
backup copy to another, and then only update the new copy with rsync.
If you keep that straight, it's not too hard....

-Kevin

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