Ivan Voras wrote:
Warning: DO NOT do on-the-fly binary backups without snapshots.
Archiving the database directory with tar on a regular file system,
while the server is running, will result in an archive that most likely
won't work when restored.
Even if you do a "pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup" as specified here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html
=> Making a Base backup.
??
It worked when I tested it, but I may just have been darn lucky.
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Jesper
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