On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I'm just curious - when was the last time you restored a Postgres
> > > database in this piecemeal manner, and how often do you do it?
> >
> > More curios to me is that people seem to use physical file
> > based backup at all. Do they shutdown the postmaster during
> > backup or do they live with the fact that maybe not every
> > backup is a vital one?
>
> I sure hope they shut down the postmaster, or know that nothing is
> happening during the backup.
I do a backup based on a pg_dump snapshot at the time of the backup
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