Re: Using PITR Backup and Recovery - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Using PITR Backup and Recovery
Date
Msg-id 1187105710.4162.23.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Using PITR Backup and Recovery  ("beer@cmu.edu" <beer@cmu.edu>)
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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:52 -0400, beer@cmu.edu wrote:
> We recently moved to PITR backup and recovery solution as defined in
> the documentation.  Our basic setup executes the backup start command,
> and then takes a snapshot of the filesystem and backups wal files.
> However, we have database files ( not wal files ) that change while
> the system is in backup mode.  This happens during every backup.  Is
> this normal?

It's OK if they change; thats the whole point of HOT backup - you can
just continue working while we take the backup.

--
  Simon Riggs
  EnterpriseDB  http://www.enterprisedb.com


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