Re: Backup Question for Point-in-Time Recovery

From: Rural Hunter <ruralhunter(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Backup Question for Point-in-Time Recovery
Date: 2011-09-11 01:17:13
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OK, thank you.

于2011年9月11日 1:30:48,Guillaume Lelarge写到:
> On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 01:19 +0800, Rural Hunter wrote:
>> I'm making a base backup with 9.1rc by following 24.3.3 in manual:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/continuous-archiving.html
>> 1. SELECT pg_start_backup('label');
>> 2. perform file system backup with tar
>> 3. SELECT pg_stop_backup();
>>
>> But when I was performing step 2, I got warning from tar command that
>> file was changed when tar was reading file on some files such as
>> 'postgres/base/16405/5659097'. Will I get a good backup in this case?
>>
>
> Yes. But note that you can use pg_basebackup in 9.1. It does everything
> needed to have a complete file backup.
>
>

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