On 08/01/2014 16:09, gator...@yahoo.de wrote: > For machines running database systems, this means, this means, > that I need some way to get a consistent state of some point in > time. It does not particularly matter, which time exactly (in
> Unfortunately, it does not look like there is any direct way to > accomplish this with postgres except shutting down the whole > database system while the backup is running. The systems will You could use a file system which supports snapshots (I don't know which Linux FS's do, I've read that LVM can be used to simulate those) to get an exact point-in-time backup which will use the database's usual resilience to be stable enough for restoring.
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