On 03/09/10 14:28, Dave Page wrote:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
Here's a WIP patch. It adds a new "TAKE_BACKUP" command to the replication
command set. Upon receiving that command, the master starts a COPY, and
streams a tarred copy of the data directory to the client. The patch
includes a simple command-line tool, pg_streambackup, to connect to a server
and request a backup that you can then redirect to a .tar file or pipe to
"tar x".
Cool. Can you add a TODO to build in code to un-tar the archive? tar
is not usually found on Windows systems, and as we already have tar
extraction code in pg_restore it could presumably be added relatively
painlessly.
Ok. Another obvious thing that people will want is to gzip the tar file
while sending it, to reduce network traffic.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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