Re: Any reason to use pg_dumpall on an idle database

> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Seems a typical file system backup is fine on an idle database, right?
> > > 
> > > how do you know its idle, and/or will remain so?
> > 
> > pg_ctl stop of modification of pg_hba.conf.
> 
> ack ... why would you want to? *raised eyebrow*

Well, I am not sure.  In the book, I say you can use a normal file
system backup if the database is idle, or use pg_dumpall and backup the
file it creates.  In fact, once you run pg_dumpall, there is no need to
backup the /data directory except for the few configuration files like
pg_hba.conf.  Does this make sense?

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