On Friday 10 July 2009, Vanessa Lopez <v.lopez@open.ac.uk> wrote:
> What do you mean by we can't simply take a filesystem copy of a
> running database? :-O ... How should we then do the backups (so next
> time I will not have the same problem again) ?
There is extensive documentation on how to do backups. For filesystem
backups, see PITR.
You might also want to examine all your backup strategies - most running
applications are not happy about being backed up without taking special
steps to ensure data consistency.
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