Re: [GENERAL] mirroring a server and/or hot standby

2015-06-24 Thread John Bleichert
I use pg_dumpall for regular backups and can definitely use one of those backups to kickstart the new server. Would I then configure that new server instance as a standby server as per doc section 18.6? Or should I just setup the standby server first? Having re-read 18.6 I think this is what I wan

[GENERAL] mirroring a server and/or hot standby

2015-06-24 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All, I am looking for documentation pointers on how to move the contents of an existing/working single-instance server to a new instance. As in: I have a Postgres server running in a VM and I want to move it to a different OS in a different VM guest. Is there a way to gracefully do this? Is