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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: backup file system
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Msg-id 17307.1004588885@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: backup file system  (Jeremy Buchmann <jeremy@wellsgaming.com>)
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>> Why do you want to back up the file system instead of using pg_dump?

There is some discussion of this issue in the PG documentation;
see
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/backup-file.html

            regards, tom lane

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