Sorry for the delay. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Mikko Partio <mpartio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > I'm currently testing Pg 9.0.0 alpha 4 and the hot standby feature (with > streaming replication) is working great. I tried to take a filesystem backup > from a hot standby, but I guess that is not possible since executing "SELECT > pg_start_backup('ss')" returns an error? Or can I just tar $PGDATA and copy > the xlog files generated during the backup, since the server is in constant > recovery mode? In Oracle it is possible to take backups from a data guard > standby, which is very useful since that way making the backups does not > stress the master server. You can take a base backup of the standby while it's in progress, without calling pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup(). Please see the following document. http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/backup-incremental-updated.html Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin