Re: [ADMIN] running in a virtual environment

2010-08-27 Thread Richard Sickler
I have an 8.3.7 system running on a virtual machine hosted on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. I mapped virtual disks to real disks, (DAS), so that I have two physical spindles and two virtual spindles mapped to them, one each. Then followed normal good practices. WAL on one spindle, tables on the ot

[ADMIN] backing up a PostGRES DB

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Sickler
Hello, I'm putting together a web app that uses PostGRES as a backend and I'm looking for comments on backup strategy. The entire web app, (Tomcat and PostGRES), will be run in a virtual machine. I was thinking about quiescing the DB, then copying the files that make up the virtual machine to som