On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jigar shah <jshah1982@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thanks Scott. i have read and used this article a lot of times before. > > in section 24.3.2, step number 3 says > > "3. Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool such as > tar or cpio. It is neither necessary nor desirable to stop normal operation > of the database while you do this. " > > so instead of tar or cpio, i am looking for the procedure where you can use > hardware level snapshots of the postgres filesystem, which you can take on > san (3par) or nas (netapp) or any other vendor hardware, and then mount the > postgres filesystem snapshot to a different host. > > i know a lot of ppl use this procedure, but cant find a good doc for this > procedure. I found little on the google about snapshotting with 3par. I'd guess they gave you docs on how to do that. I hope. I found plenty on doing it with other file systems / etc, like LVM, ZFS, Microsoft, EMC. For 3par I searched google for "3par snapshot howto" and the first result was a pdf that seems to show what to do, but doesn't feel like definitive documentation. They're big on marketing, not so much on documentation it seems. -- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
