Re: Database separation for backup

From: "Nagalingam, Karthikeyan" <KARTHIKEYAN(dot)Nagalingam(at)netapp(dot)com>
To: "Karsten Hilbert" <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Database separation for backup
Date: 2009-03-12 12:04:50
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Thanks karsten.

Anybody have production setup with diff database in diff folder ie) diff
partition. Please provide the details if possible help me with diaghram.

Regards
Karthikeyan.N

-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Hilbert [mailto:Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:46 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Database separation for backup

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:18:50PM +0530, Nagalingam, Karthikeyan wrote:

> Is there any way to keep each database in separate partition ie)
> separate folder for each database.
>
> I would like to do the dabase level backup in storage side, for that
> If I am able to separate the database in folderwise, I can allocate
> separate partition for each database. Then I can take the backup in
> each partition.

You can use tablespaces to separate things on disk but it won't make
taking filesystem level backups as easy as you might hope.

Karsten
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