Re: PITR - base backup question

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>
> Subject: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
> To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:53 PM
> From the following link:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP
>
> Step 3 says to perform the back up.
>
>     Does this mean a File System Backup of the Data
> directory?
> OR
>     Does this mean performing a pg_dumpall and backing up
> the dump file?
>
is a file system backup of he data directory
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.