Re: Large Database Restore - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Large Database Restore
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Msg-id 20070518175524.GC15691@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Large Database Restore  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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Richard Huxton escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Lee Keel escribió:
> >>So then the best way to do this kind of backup\restore is to use pg_dump?
> >>Is there any plan in the future to be able to do some sort of file-level
> >>backup like SqlServer?
> >
> >Actually you can do single databases, but you must also include some
> >other directories besides the database directory.  You would need to
> >include everything, excluding things in the "base" directory, but not
> >exclude your databases directory in "base".
>
> Will that not cause trouble if you've added users though?

Huh, maybe it will, but then I don't see how.  Can you be more specific?

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