Re: Duplicating a database

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 02:39, Karim Nassar 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 just need a working copy, not necessarily right up to date at any
time, you can just dump and restore it:

pg_dumpall -h source_server |psql -h dest_server

add switches as necessary.