Re: [ADMIN] Least intrusive way to move primary data

2013-05-30 Thread Armand du Plessis
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Andrew W. Gibbs wrote: > Going with your first option, a master->slave replication, has the > added benefit that you build the expertise for doing Continuous Point > In Time Recovery, and after you do this storage system migration you > can use that knowledge to p

Re: [ADMIN] Least intrusive way to move primary data

2013-05-30 Thread Andrew W. Gibbs
Going with your first option, a master->slave replication, has the added benefit that you build the expertise for doing Continuous Point In Time Recovery, and after you do this storage system migration you can use that knowledge to put in a place a permanent standby server. Yes, it is a bit of work

[ADMIN] Least intrusive way to move primary data

2013-05-30 Thread Armand du Plessis
We're looking into options for the least intrusive way of moving our pg_data onto faster storage. The basic setup is as follows : 6 disk RAID-0 array of EBS volumes used for primary data storage 2 disk RAID-0 array of EBS volumes used for transaction logs RAID arrays are xfs It's the primary data