Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?

I meant,use disks as the medium. Put  DUMP's on it.<br /><br /> Vivek Khera wrote:<br /><blockquote
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class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"href="mailto:gearond@fireserve.net"><gearond@fireserve.net></a> writes:
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DG> With the low cost of disks, it might be a good idea to just copy to
DG> disks, that one can put back in.

Your file system copies will be broken, since they only work if
PG is shut down.  For this very reason I don't even bother doing a
file system dump of the PG data partition.
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