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Re: Recommended way to copy database files on Windows OS (to perform file system level backup) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: Recommended way to copy database files on Windows OS (to perform file system level backup)
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In response to Re: Recommended way to copy database files on Windows OS (to performfile system level backup)  (Allan Kamau <kamauallan@gmail.com>)
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>An easy way to perform backup of your data is to use PostgreSQL's very
>own
>pg_dump utility.

That's not a file level backup, but a logical backup. Maybe he wants to build standby for streaming replication, for
thisyou needs an other backup. See the answer from Christoph. 

Andreas

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