Обсуждение: Clone database using rsync?

I need to clone production database to development  server ? What is the best
and simplest way to achieve that? Both my production and development
postgres versions are same. Will copy over data folder using rsync work?

Thanks in advance.



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I need to clone production database to development  server ? What is the best
and simplest way to achieve that? Both my production and development
postgres versions are same. Will copy over data folder using rsync work?

1. manually create any roles and tablespaces the database requires
2. manually create the new database owned by the proper role
3. pg_dump -h oldhost -d dbname -Fc | pg_restore -d newdb
   

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Copying the data folder should work as long as you stop the postgres
service on the production server before starting the copy and don't start
it up again until the copy finishes.  pg_dump and pg_restore (look them up
in the online docs) will get the job done without you having to take the
production server offline.

If you go with the folder copy and your installation has postgresql.conf,
pg_hba.conf and so on in your data folder, you'll probably want to edit
them after the copy - more logging, different security etc.

Matt


> I need to clone production database to development  server ? What is the
> best
> and simplest way to achieve that? Both my production and development
> postgres versions are same. Will copy over data folder using rsync work?
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> Thanks in advance.
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On 11/05/2013 03:41 PM, matt@byrney.com wrote:
> Copying the data folder should work as long as you stop the postgres
> service on the production server before starting the copy and don't start
> it up again until the copy finishes.  pg_dump and pg_restore (look them up
> in the online docs) will get the job done without you having to take the
> production server offline.
>
> If you go with the folder copy and your installation has postgresql.conf,
> pg_hba.conf and so on in your data folder, you'll probably want to edit
> them after the copy - more logging, different security etc.

OP did not say what version they where on but pg_basebackup could be an
option, no shutdown necessary either:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/app-pgbasebackup.html

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> Matt
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>> I need to clone production database to development  server ? What is the
>> best
>> and simplest way to achieve that? Both my production and development
>> postgres versions are same. Will copy over data folder using rsync work?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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Thanks Jeff for your quick response.

I inherited this system and they had cron job which uses pg_dump for back
up. I recently used to rsync to bring back my hot standby when it was out of
sync and offline for few days because of space issue. That is when the
thought that I might be able to use rsync to clone database.

If I understood your reply correctly, you are currently using rsync for both
clone and backup.  Is that correct?

Thanks Again.




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