Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-29 Thread Rosser Schwarz
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jigar shah wrote: > so instead of tar or cpio, i am looking for the procedure where you can use > hardware level snapshots of the postgres filesystem, which you can take on > san (3par) or nas (netapp) or any other vendor hardware, and then mount the > postgres fil

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jigar shah wrote: > thanks Scott. i have read and used this article a lot of times before. > > in section 24.3.2, step number 3 says > > "3. Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as > tar or cpio. It is neither necessary nor desirabl

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread jigar shah
thanks Scott. i have read and used this article a lot of times before. in section 24.3.2, step number 3 says "3. Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as tar or cpio. It is neither necessary nor desirable to stop normal operation of the database while you do this.

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:57 PM, jigar shah wrote: >>  Postgres Guru’s >> >> Do you guys know the procedure to use hardware snapshots (for eg 3par) to >> restore postgres database? Is there somewhere I can find good documentation >> to do t

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

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Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, jigar shah wrote: > Postgres Guru’s > > Do you guys know the procedure to use hardware snapshots (for eg 3par) to > restore postgres database? Is there somewhere I can find good documentation > to do this? > Did you even read the section of the docs on this I sug

Re: [ADMIN] Use hardware snapshots to restore postgres

2010-08-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:57 PM, jigar shah wrote: >  Postgres Guru’s > > Do you guys know the procedure to use hardware snapshots (for eg 3par) to > restore postgres database? Is there somewhere I can find good documentation > to do this? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/continuous