Re: Database separation for backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Nagalingam, Karthikeyan
Subject Re: Database separation for backup
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In response to Re: Database separation for backup  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
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Thanks karsten.

Anybody have production setup with diff database in diff folder ie) diff
partition. Please provide the details if possible help me with diaghram.


Regards
Karthikeyan.N


-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Hilbert [mailto:Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:46 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Database separation for backup

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:18:50PM +0530, Nagalingam, Karthikeyan wrote:

> Is there any way to keep each database in separate partition ie)
> separate folder for each database.
>
> I would like to do the dabase level backup in storage side, for that
> If I am able to separate the database in folderwise, I can allocate
> separate partition for each database. Then I can take the backup in
> each partition.


You can use tablespaces to separate things on disk but it won't make
taking filesystem level backups as easy as you might hope.

Karsten
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