Re: AW: secure deletion of archived logs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: AW: secure deletion of archived logs
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Msg-id 20191209143045.GM6962@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to AW: secure deletion of archived logs  ("Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" <Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch>)
Responses AW: AW: secure deletion of archived logs
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Greetings,

* Zwettler Markus (OIZ) (Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch) wrote:
> We use "rsync" on XFS with "wsync" mount mode. I think this should do the job?

No, that just makes sure that namespace operations are executed
synchronously, that doesn't provide any guarantee that the data has
actually been written out and sync'd.

> The tools mentioned will all do backup to disk.
> We are required to do backup to tape.

Back up to disk first and then tar to tape.

Thanks,

Stephen

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