Re: question about Postgresql and rsync

Tony.....

> I need to create a exact duplicate for a disaster recovery server, the
> disaster recovery server would not be in use until the production one
> went down for some reason.

While it's not what you asked about, copying the database files, what I do
is pg_dump nightly with a cronjob, then use rsync to copy it to my backup
machine and load it into the backup server with a cronjob there.

That way if the main server crashes or is down the backup server is never
more than a day out of date.

Obviously this is a server with relatively small databases that can stand
the chance of some loss of data (it's a website server).  I could make it
better by doing this every hour or so.

brew

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