Re: Backup of live database

The documentation about WAL says that you can start a live backup, as long
as you use WAL backup also.
I'm concerned about the integrity of the tar file. Can someone help me with
that?

On 16/01/2008, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Brian Modra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > If tar reports that a file was modified while it was being archived,
> > does that mean that the file was archived correctly, or is it corrupted
> > in the archive?
> > Does tar take a snapshot of the file so that even if it is modified, at
> > least the archive is safe?
>
> You can not use tar to backup postgresql if it is running.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/backup.html
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> > Thanks
> >
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