[GENERAL] Filesystem level backup and 32 / 64 bit

2005-03-15 Thread NTPT
I have situation where I have one box with linux native 64 bit distribution (Gentoo on AMD) running pg 8.x and other box running a 32 bit distro running version of pg 8.x Is it posssible to take a filesystem level backup (copyiing all in $PGDATA directory) from 64 bit system and use it as

Re: [GENERAL] Filesystem level backup and 32 / 64 bit

2005-03-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:29:51PM +0100, NTPT wrote: I have situation where I have one box with linux native 64 bit distribution (Gentoo on AMD) running pg 8.x and other box running a 32 bit distro running version of pg 8.x Is it posssible to take a filesystem level backup (copyiing all

Re: [GENERAL] Filesystem level backup and 32 / 64 bit

2005-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:29:51PM +0100, NTPT wrote: Is it posssible to take a filesystem level backup (copyiing all in=20 $PGDATA directory) from 64 bit system and use it as $PGDATA in the native= 32 bit system with the same version of

Re: [GENERAL] Filesystem level backup and 32 / 64 bit

2005-03-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:29, NTPT wrote: I have situation where I have one box with linux native 64 bit distribution (Gentoo on AMD) running pg 8.x and other box running a 32 bit distro running version of pg 8.x Is it posssible to take a filesystem level backup (copyiing all in $PGDATA