Re: Backing up a replication set every 30 mins

On 02/15/2012 12:58 PM, Vladimir Rusinov wrote:
>
> pg_dump won't block writes, thanks to MVCC. It may increase bloat and it
> will block DDL operations (ALTER TABLE/etc), but if your database is
> relatively small but have high load and you need frequent backups, this
> may be a way to go.
>
> --
> Vladimir Rusinov
> http://greenmice.info/

Thanks Vladimir. Would a simple script with 'pg_start_backup' and
'pg_stop_backup' and an rsync job or tar job in between would work
equally well? I thought that was the better way to do it, rather than
pg_dump?