Re: Clone database using rsync?

I need to clone production database to development  server ? What is the best
and simplest way to achieve that? Both my production and development
postgres versions are same. Will copy over data folder using rsync work?

if the database isn't gigenormous, on the new ssytem, I use the following, while logged on as postgres...

1. manually create any roles and tablespaces the database requires
2. manually create the new database owned by the proper role
3. pg_dump -h oldhost -d dbname -Fc | pg_restore -d newdb
   

copying the data folder only works if you either stop the postgres server, or invoke pg_start_backup(), or use pg_basebackup [1]


[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgbasebackup.html

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