Marty Scholes wrote: > We are running a tiny (< 1GB) Pg installation, but are starting to > migrate over our production Oracle apps. > > We run a daily Oracle dump and a daily Pg dump to /var/tmp, keeping the > most recent four versions of each. > > Nightly, we have Veritas Netbackup backup the whole filesystem to a tape > library. > > Currently, the Oracle data directory (which also has the redo logs) is > excluded from the UFS backup as those datafiles are 100 GB and are > completely useless in a restore. > > I have not excluded the Pg data files since I don't know what is safe to > exclude and the files are very small. > > As we migrate apps and the Pg install grows, we will need to exclude > those data files. > > Which directories/files are safe to exclude from the UFS backup? In > other words, what files can Pg live without and still get off the ground > far enough to restore from a pg_dump?
You need to back up all the files in /data, but none of the subdirectories. We should make this easier to do someday. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
