IñigoMartinez Lasala <imartinez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yesterday we experienced some data duplication in several database > tables after one sysadmin decided to test in a production > environment an rsync script in order to migrate a database from > one server to another one. > Postgresql (8.2) was running in source server and rsync script was > launched from second one. Second one server had a one day old copy > of the same database. Rsync script create a datafile replica in > destination server. > Our sysadmin swear he didn't launch the script in a reverse way > (that is, from destination to source)... so my question is > How this data duplication could happen? Where did this duplication happen -- source or destination? If in the source, I would suspect operator error by your sysadmin; I have never seen rsync cause problems with the source files. If on the target, I would suspect that you didn't follow PITR recovery techniques properly. If you need to follow up on this, please include a few more details, like the exact PostgreSQL version from `select version();` and the exact version of the OS. The exact rsync statement(s) used would be good to see, too -- maybe from the bash history (or similar) on the machines. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
