Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful

Kevin,

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> You have apparently missed the fact that rsync (unless you go out of
> your way to defeat this) will copy to a temporary filename, and then
> mv the new file in place of the old.  This doesn't modify the old
> file; it unlinks the copy you are replacing, leaving any other
> directory entries which point at the old data unaffected.
>
Ahh, there's the subtlety that I missed. :-)  I figured I was missing
something, since at face value it seems like your hard link strategy is
doomed to fail.

Thanks for the clarification :-)   That's a pretty nifty mechanism to
retain your old database versions.  I suppose you just have to be
careful to make a copy of the cluster before trying to start it up (lest
you break an older or newer backup).

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