Re: Hot backup

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:50:21 -0400,
  Krishna R Palati <krishna@hedgehoghosting.com> wrote:
>
> I read online that Postgres 7.4.1 has the capability to do hotbackups
> (equivalent to Hotbackups on Oracle). But am not able to find any
> documentation which will help me set up one. Can you please point me to a
> resource that I can use to set up hotbackups for Postgres 7.4.1 ?

pg_dump and pg_dumpall provide consistant dumps of the database.