Re: Backup strategies - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Backup strategies
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Msg-id 22266.1224085913@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Backup strategies  (Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>)
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:
> Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>> The files may change, but it doesn't matter, because there is enough
>> information in the xlog to correct it all.

> I'm thinking about these paragraphs in the documentation:

>> You can, however, omit from the backup dump the files within the
>> pg_xlog/ subdirectory of the cluster directory.

The assumption is that a PITR backup configuration provides a separate
pathway for the xlog files to get to the slave database.

            regards, tom lane

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