On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:49:59 -0700 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > Jeff, > > > The downside is > > this method will only work on that specific version of PG and it > > isn't the"cleanest" thing in the world since you are essentially > > simulating a power failure to PG. Luckly the WAL works like a champ. > > Also, these backups can be much larger since it has to include the > > indexes as well. but this is a price you have to pay. > > The other downside is, of course, that the database needs to be shut > down. > I left the DB up while doing this. Even had a program sitting around committing data to try and corrupt things. (Which is how I discovered I was doing the snapshot wrong) You could do pg_ctl stop; snapshot; pg_ctls tart for a "clean" image. -- Jeff Trout <jeff@jefftrout.com> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
