Sure I want a consistent database. Why doesn't?
But log shipping requires you to rsync/var/lib/pgsql/data to the remote
server, and that's consistent, so why wouldn't rsync to a local directory
also be consistent?
On 10/09/2017 08:51 AM, Larry Rosenman wrote:
If you want a consistent database (you **REALLY** do), pg_dump is the
correct tool.
--
Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler <http://www.lerctr.org/%7Eler>
Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org
<mailto:l...@lerctr.org>
US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
*From: *<pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org> on behalf of Ron Johnson
<ron.l.john...@cox.net>
*Date: *Monday, October 9, 2017 at 8:41 AM
*To: *"pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
*Subject: *[GENERAL] Using cp to back up a database?
Hi,
v8.4.20
This is what the current backup script uses:
/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -c "SELECT
pg_start_backup('Incrementalbackup',true);"
cp -r /var/lib/pgsql/data/* $dumpdir/data/
/usr/bin/psql -U postgres template1 -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup();"
Should it use rsync or pg_dump instead?
Thanks
--
World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
