girish R G peetle wrote:
> After executing pg_start_backup, we will generate a file 'Backup file' which will contain list of all
> the folders n files under DATA directory.
>
> Then we read entry from 'Backup file' sequentially and use copy command/script to move it to backup
> media.
>
> When network encounters copy script will fail stating couldn't backup the file.
>
> Say copy command throws error at 20th file entry. When backup is resumed copy command resumes from
> 20th file entry.
That should work just fine.
I'd still test the result by restoring such a backup and running "pg_dump -f /dev/null" on it,
just to be sure and because you cannot test your backups often enough.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe