On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:39:26 -0700,
Karim Nassar <Karim.Nassar@NAU.EDU> wrote:
> I need to have an exact copy of a postgres install on a testing
> computer. I don't want to do slony. Is it feasible/reasonable to think
> that I could just rsync to the devel boxen from the pg server? Or is
> slony "The Way to Do It"(tm)?
If you shutdown the database cluster before doing the rsync that will work.