File system level copy - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Wang, Hao
Subject File system level copy
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Msg-id 5924071B5F390F46934DECF517DFA37102410E@MX101CL01.corp.emc.com
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Responses Re: File system level copy  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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Hi

I installed PostgresSQL-8.3 on my linux machine.

The cluster directory is /usr/local/data and I created three databases named db1, db2, and db3. db1 is in the default tablespace 'pg_default'. db2 is in '/home/tablespace/space1/' and db3 is in '/home/tablespace/space2/'.  I want to copy the cluster directory and the db3  tablespace folder('/home/tablespace/space2/') without stopping the database server. Then I want to use the cluster directory and db3's tablespace in another linux machine to recover 'db3' database. Does this way work? If not, why?

 

 

Regards,

Hao

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