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From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Using cp to back up a database?
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Msg-id 835f7baa-8517-eb4e-b9ee-27170adea759@cox.net
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In response to [GENERAL] Using cp to back up a database?  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Using cp to back up a database?  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On 10/09/2017 11:33 AM, Jeff Janes wrote:
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
Hi,

v8.4.20

This is what the current backup script uses:

/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -c "SELECT pg_start_backup('Incrementalbackup',true);"
cp -r /var/lib/pgsql/data/* $dumpdir/data/
/usr/bin/psql -U postgres template1 -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup();"


That's fine, as long as you have a wal archive.  Although I don't know what is "Incremental" about it.

From reading the docs, that field is just a label with no intrinsic meaning.


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