Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com> wrote:
> I admit to being scared as crap of rsync'ing a live database to
> another server. Like chills are running down my spine even typing
> it. Is this an approved, safe thing?
It is fine, as long as you're doing it between the pg_start_backup()
and pg_stop_backup() calls. We do it on 100 production databases
every week. It is approved, documented, and safe.
-Kevin
