On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Here's a WIP patch. It adds a new "TAKE_BACKUP" command to the replication > command set. Upon receiving that command, the master starts a COPY, and > streams a tarred copy of the data directory to the client. The patch > includes a simple command-line tool, pg_streambackup, to connect to a server > and request a backup that you can then redirect to a .tar file or pipe to > "tar x".
Cool. Can you add a TODO to build in code to un-tar the archive? tar is not usually found on Windows systems, and as we already have tar extraction code in pg_restore it could presumably be added relatively painlessly. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
