Re: lock entire database

Oliver Fromme wrote:

>Benjamin wrote:
> > Machine A is the Primary, and Machine B is the backup for A.
> > When B is booting up, it has to duplicate the entire pgsql db from A.
> > As Ron said, cud do with a pg_dump. But, i guess, pg_dump takes quite
> > some time. As A is already up, it wud be unwise to lock the db for so
> > long. Also, even if i do go ahead with pg_dump, and then do a pg_restore
> > on B, by the time data is being pg_restore'ed on B, a query cud modify/
> > update the db on A.
> > My idea was to lock the db on A, scp the required files onto B and then
> > unlock db on A.
>
>If I understand you correctly, "Slony" will do exactly what you
>want, without the need to lock any DB:  http://www.slony.org
>Slony 1.0 has been released recently, which was mentioned
>prominently on PostgreSQL's homepage.  It's a master-slave
>replication system.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Best regards
>   Oliver
>
Thanx everyone.
Yea.. slony seems to be good. We just might HAVE to use that in the near
future.
But as of now, we r shutting down pgsql on A,  while the duplication is
being done, as Tom suggested.


--

Benjamin Jacob.

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