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> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:58:33 -0700
> From: lennin.caro@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; richard.broersma@gmail.com
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> --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Richard Broersma wrote:
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>> From: Richard Broersma
>> Subject: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
>> To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:53 PM
>> From the following link:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP
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>> Step 3 says to perform the back up.
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>> Does this mean a File System Backup of the Data
>> directory?\
It is a file system backup, we use PITR and every time we need a new checkpoint we create a TAR file of the postgresql
homedirectory
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>> Does this mean performing a pg_dumpall and backing up
>> the dump file?
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> is a file system backup of he data directory
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>> Regards,
>> Richard Broersma Jr.
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