On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Imre Oolberg wrote: > But http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/continuous-archiving.html > suggests to use tar on rsync and i guess that PostgreSQL recovery with wal > files takes care of these inconsistencies that are created during copying > filesystem, right?
Yes, but the database is recovered to the consistent state as of the pg_start_backup command, as I pointed out to you before. Results of transactions that commit after the pg_start_backup command will not be in the backed up database. -- Scott Ribe [email protected] http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
