Hey all, I have a question about streaming replication available in PG 9+
The general configuration I see is along the lines of this:
Where you do the file system backup and restore. However, our current server I wish to make master has a 75GB database. I can't take the server down, and I can't run rsync against the live DB.
What are my options? I don't care if it takes a day or two for the slave to get up to sync w/ the master: is there some way to have an empty DB read an entire log that has everything?
I could also do a pg_restore to the new slave from last night's DB backup, but I understand (at least, I seem to read it) that you can't bring a slave up using pg_restore.
Are there any other options I am missing? Thanks for any tips.