On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Wells Oliver <wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hey all, I have a question about streaming replication available in PG 9+
>
> The general configuration I see is along the lines of this:
>
> http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/oct/20/postgres-9-streaming-replication-and-django-balanc/
>
> Where you do the file system backup and restore. However, our current server
> I wish to make master has a 75GB database. I can't take the server down, and
> I can't run rsync against the live DB.
You don't need to take the master down. But you do need to run rsync.
Note that rsync has a --bwlimit flag to reduce its impact on the
master.