8.4.13 & PostGIS 2.0 on Red Hat 6
I want to do a offline backup of /var/lib/pgsql/data
But whenever I do
Pg_ctl stop
I get
-bash-4.1$ pg_ctl stop
waiting for server to shut down............................................................... failed
pg_ctl: server does not shut down
1. If I do
pg_ctl stop -m f
the cluster and databases shutdown as required but is this a clean and/or consistent shutdown of the cluster in the
sensethat I could recover from the OS
cp -r /var/lib/pgsql/data
command that I did?
2. Any ideas as to what could be causing the pg_ctl stop command to fail. I tried doing it again after a -m f stop
followedby a pg_ctl start but still no good.
Thanks
Austen Birchall
DBA
Met Office
