Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful
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In response to Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful  (Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com>)
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Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:

> I suppose you just have to be careful to make a copy of the cluster
> before trying to start it up (lest you break an older or newer
> backup).

Yeah, you don't want to get confused and have the warm standby using a
hard link to a backup.  The trick is to *only* use the cp -l from one
backup copy to another, and then only update the new copy with rsync.
If you keep that straight, it's not too hard....

-Kevin

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