Re: [PERFORM] Backup taking long time !!!

2017-01-24 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Rick Otten (rottenwindf...@gmail.com) wrote: > Actually, I think this may be the way Oracle Hot Backups work. It was my > impression that feature temporarily suspends writes into a specific > tablespace so you can take a snapshot of it. It has been a few years since > I've had to do

Re: [PERFORM] Backup taking long time !!!

2017-01-24 Thread Rick Otten
Actually, I think this may be the way Oracle Hot Backups work. It was my impression that feature temporarily suspends writes into a specific tablespace so you can take a snapshot of it. It has been a few years since I've had to do Oracle work though and I could be mis-remembering. People may be

Re: [PERFORM] Backup taking long time !!!

2017-01-24 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 23 January 2017 at 17:12, Jeff Janes wrote: > > >> Just to make sure anyone reading the mailing list archives isn't > >> confused, running pg_start_backup does *not* make PG stop writing to > >> BASEDIR (or DATADIR, or anything, really).