You can do snapshots in FreeBSD 5.x with UFS2 as well but that (Ahh... isn't that what fsync is for?
nor XFS snapshots ) will let you backup with the database server
running. Just because you will get the file exactly as it was at
a particular instant does not mean that the postmaster did not
still have some some data that was not flushed to disk yet.
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