Re: Backup of live database

Brian Modra wrote:
> The documentation about WAL says that you can start a live backup, as
> long as you use WAL backup also.
> I'm concerned about the integrity of the tar file. Can someone help me
> with that?

If you are using point in time recovery:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html

You do not have to worry about it.

Joshua D. Drake






>
> On 16/01/2008, *Joshua D. Drake* <jd@commandprompt.com
> <mailto:jd@commandprompt.com>> wrote:
>
>     Brian Modra wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      > If tar reports that a file was modified while it was being archived,
>      > does that mean that the file was archived correctly, or is it
>     corrupted
>      > in the archive?
>      > Does tar take a snapshot of the file so that even if it is
>     modified, at
>      > least the archive is safe?
>
>     You can not use tar to backup postgresql if it is running.
>
>     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/backup.html
>     <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/backup.html>
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Joshua D. Drake
>
>      > Thanks
>      >
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