Re: Backing up PostgreSQL?

2002-06-22 Thread Martín Marqués
On Vie 21 Jun 2002 20:32, Greg A. Woods wrote: [ On Friday, June 21, 2002 at 18:00:19 (-0300), Martín Marqués wrote: ] Other UNIX? If you could rely on it, why does Informix (and other database servers, but this is the one I used) still use it's own FS to write the database files?

Re: Backing up PostgreSQL?

2002-06-22 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:43:27PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: There are no writes to the filesystem at all while the snapshot is in progress. The LVM-driver will block all data-access until it is completed. If not, it wouldn't be a snapshot, would it? I realize that -- but it doesn't

Re: Backing up PostgreSQL?

2002-06-22 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:30:44PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: It should only require REDO. No changes are made to the actual database-files until the transaction is commited, written to the WAL and fsynced. At this point there is no longer a need for UNDO. Hmmm possibly. I'm not

Re: Backing up PostgreSQL?

2002-06-22 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:01:17PM -0400, Michael H.Collins wrote: I thought i just read that postgresql on ext3 outran oracle on raw devices. Yes, it's funny how all database engines are faster than all other database engines, isn't it? ~Because there are tremendous performance advantages

Re: new label templates from Ulrik Sandberg, where are they?

2002-06-22 Thread Ulrik Sandberg
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Patrick C. F. Ernzer wrote: Hi, on Fri Apr 19 Ulrik Sandberg posted about new templates, I fail to find these labels in the CVS and in the archives. Where can these templates be found? Are there plans to include these in the examples directory at some point? Sorry

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2002-06-22 Thread manoj

every run a new tape?

2002-06-22 Thread Juanjo
Why amanda uses a new tape on every night run? Tapes are 40/80GB DLT1, and I dont understand why It dumps daily incrementals to a new tape always, most of tapes are not even at 20%. Any help? Is it any parameter I've missed out? Thanks.

irix 6.5.14 and amanda

2002-06-22 Thread Robert . Weber
We upgraded(patched) irix on some of our sgi's and noticed core.pid files started appearing in /. From the amanda logs it appears that amanda cannot sigterm the xfsdumps and has resulted in SIGKILL. The kills are apparently causing the xfsdumps to dump core. Is anyone else seeing this? I'm