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From Leong, Fushan
Subject backup file system
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Responses Re: backup file system  ("Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>)
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Hi :

I am very new in postgres and hope someone can give me some suggestions

I am working on a shell script to backup my postgres database.  Compared
with pg_dump and pg_dumpall, I would
like to backup the file system instead of dump the database  because I can
shutdown the database server in
midnight for a few hours.  I also can sure I will have a stable backup. ( No
user is doing anything at the same time )

I search internet but did not find anyone mention this method.  Did I miss
anything?  I plan to backup all
files under data directory.  Is that enough?

thanks
Fushan
DBA

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