-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tom Lane wrote: >> well, I was using rysnc so I could copy to a different computer over >> ssh, not using the rsync protocol to catch diffs. I don't have a >> remote file system mounted so I can do just a cp. > If you are going over an ssh connection then scp seems like the > appropriate tool. Yeah, rsync would work, but it's just a useless > extra layer of software... In addition to the atomicity advantage, rsync allows compression of the data on the fly. While you can also pass the -C flag to scp, I've found that the high compressibility of WAL files means that rsync -z is noticeably faster than scp -C (not that I would use the latter due to the partial file issue). - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200708071229 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFGuJ6FvJuQZxSWSsgRA9xdAKDL4VZONTcmuXJl7Cz4bqiWXWVuZQCfRJso 2QIy8xDl88G4AnMFNrADVhM= =iuKm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
