[ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread jigar shah
Postgres Guru¹s Do you guys know the procedure to use hardware snapshots (for eg 3par) to restore postgres database? Is there somewhere I can find good documentation to do this? I¹d like to do the following # put the database in the backup mode # take an filesystem snap # get the database out o

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, jigar shah wrote: > Postgres Guru’s > > Do you guys know the procedure to use hardware snapshots (for eg 3par) to > restore postgres database? Is there somewhere I can find good documentation > to do this? > Did you even read the section of the docs on this I sug

[ADMIN] [Admin] Large DataBase move

2010-08-28 Thread David Montoya
Hello: I have a DB with 90GB in postgre 8.1 and I want to move to another server. The new server has postgre 8.3 and I don't know if I can use PITR to do the replication. thank you very much.

Re: [ADMIN] [Admin] Large DataBase move

2010-08-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 17:25 +0200, David Montoya wrote: > Hello: > > > I have a DB with 90GB in postgre 8.1 and I want to move to another > server. The new server has postgre 8.3 and I don't know if I can use > PITR to do the replication. You can not. Use Londiste or Slony. JD -- PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] [Admin] Large DataBase move

2010-08-28 Thread Jesper Krogh
On 2010-08-28 17:44, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 17:25 +0200, David Montoya wrote: Hello: I have a DB with 90GB in postgre 8.1 and I want to move to another server. The new server has postgre 8.3 and I don't know if I can use PITR to do the replication. You can not.

[ADMIN] vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "Validation" failed: ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in index...

2010-08-28 Thread Carl Anderson
I have a DB in constant autovacuum waiting mode: 1 S postgres 26262 4617 0 80 0 - 88927 semtim 10:19 ?00:00:00 postgres: autovacuum worker process Validation waiting Running vacuumdb, with and without -f, I get o

Re: [ADMIN] vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "Validation" failed: ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in index...

2010-08-28 Thread Tom Lane
Carl Anderson writes: > Running vacuumdb, with and without -f, I get output with final line: > vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "Validation" failed: ERROR: failed to > re-find parent key in index "pg_shdepend_reference_index" for deletion target > page 380 You should be able to fix that with R

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

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Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:57 PM, jigar shah wrote: >>  Postgres Guru’s >> >> Do you guys know the procedure to use hardware snapshots (for eg 3par) to >> restore postgres database? Is there somewhere I can find good documentation >> to do t

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread jigar shah
thanks Scott. i have read and used this article a lot of times before. in section 24.3.2, step number 3 says "3. Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as tar or cpio. It is neither necessary nor desirable to stop normal operation of the database while you do this.

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jigar shah wrote: > thanks Scott. i have read and used this article a lot of times before. > > in section 24.3.2, step number 3 says > > "3. Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as > tar or cpio. It is neither necessary nor desirabl