On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 6/12/13 10:55 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> But it's got to be pretty common to archive to a local
>> path that happens to be a remote mount, or to a local directory whose
>> contents are subsequently copied off by a batch job. Making that work
>> nicely with near-zero configuration would be a significant advance.
>
> Doesn't that just move the problem to managing NFS or batch jobs? Do we
> want to encourage that?
>
> I suspect that there are actually only about 5 or 6 common ways to do
> archiving (say, local, NFS, scp, rsync, S3, ...). There's no reason why
> we can't fully specify and/or script what to do in each of these cases.
Go for it.
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