Re: Base Backups from PITR Standby

On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:25 -0600, Brian Wipf wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to take a base backup from the standby server in archive
>> recovery mode. I don't believe it's possible to connect to it to
>> issue
>> pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/warm-
>> standby.html#BACKUP-INCREMENTAL-UPDATED
>
> It's safest to shutdown the standby first, take a backup then crank it
> up again.

Yeah, I was doing this in a completely wrong way at first and have
since found that doing just stopping the standby and making the
backup is easiest.

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