Użytkownik Tino Schwarze napisał: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:15:34PM -0700, Abu Mushayeed wrote: > >> Can someone help me with moving a postgres database install to a new >> SAN disks. We are getting a new set of faster disk, I would like to >> find out is there a way, without reinstall to move existing database >> and data to the new disks with minimal downtime. > > If you cannot move online with some SAN tools, you may simply > > 1. stop postgres Not yet... > 2. copy whole data directory over to new SAN If database is big, then I think that is much faster to copy running database to new SAN. Then stop postgres and rsync what was changed - but this will be probably only a few files. > 3. start postgres with new data directory Minimal downtime I think. Best regards -- Andrzej Zawadzki ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org