Re: [GENERAL] Backup - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Backup
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Msg-id 20080131143405.GC21660@svana.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Backup  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Backup  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:28:48PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> That sentence has no place in any discussion about "backup" because the
> risk is not just a few transactions, it is a corrupt and inconsistent
> database from which both old and new data would be inaccessible.

Hmm? I thought the whole point of a filesystem snapshot was that it's
the same as if the system crashed. And I was fairly sure we could
recover from that...

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
>  -- John F Kennedy

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