On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all, I have a question about streaming replication available in PG 9+ > > The general configuration I see is along the lines of this: > > http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/oct/20/postgres-9-streaming-replication-and-django-balanc/ > > Where you do the file system backup and restore. However, our current server > I wish to make master has a 75GB database. I can't take the server down, and > I can't run rsync against the live DB. You don't need to take the master down. But you do need to run rsync. Note that rsync has a --bwlimit flag to reduce its impact on the master. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin