Re: [GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore

2009-06-30 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Chris Barnes cbar...@recognia.com wrote: Sorry if posting twice, wasn’t part of general when sent and didn’t see it received by group. I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore

2009-06-30 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Chris Barnes cbar...@recognia.com wrote: Sorry if posting twice, wasn’t part of general when sent and didn’t see it received by group. I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC

[GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore has errors that are concerning

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Barnes
I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed something important? Online Backup psql checkpoint; SELECT pg_switch_xlog(); SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore has errors that are concerning

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Chris Barnes compuguruchrisbar...@hotmail.com wrote: I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed something important? You need the transaction logs archived

[GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Barnes
Sorry if posting twice, wasn't part of general when sent and didn't see it received by group. I started an online backup of postgres, tar'd my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed something important? Online Backup psql