Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:05, Tom Lane wrote: > >> In the context of online backup operations, that advice isn't relevant > >> anymore ... > > > Really, is this an 8.0 thing then, that I can make file system backups > > and expect them to be coherent, or did I misunderhear what you meant and > > this has to do with some other issue I'm not getting? > > No, it means that when doing PITR stuff you don't actually care that > your base backup isn't consistent --- you expect WAL replay to fix it. > See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup-online.html
Right, the big issue is that you have to be archiving the WAL logs before you do the filesystem backup, and the WAL files will restore the recovery to a consistent state. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
