[ADMIN] Standalone Hot Backups

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Arlashin
Hi! I'm reading this article http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-archiving.htm In section 'Making a Base Backup Using the Low Level API' is said that once one has WAL archiving set up it is ok to omit pg_xlog folder from the backup dump: > "You can, however, omit from the b

Re: [ADMIN] Standalone Hot Backups

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Poole
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:35:23PM +0400, Sergey Arlashin wrote: > Hi! > I'm reading this article > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-archiving.htm > > In section 'Making a Base Backup Using the Low Level API' is said that once > one has WAL archiving set up it is ok to om

Re: [ADMIN] Standalone Hot Backups

2013-08-21 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Sergey Arlashin wrote: In section 'Making a Base Backup Using the Low Level API' is said that once one has WAL archiving set up it is ok to omit pg_xlog folder from the backup dump: "You can, however, omit from the backup dump the files within the cluster's pg_xlog/ subdirectory. This slight