Re: Setting up streaming replication w/ a big ole database

[Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@xxxxxxxxx>]

I admit to being scared as crap of rsync'ing a live database to another server. Like chills are running down my spine even typing it. Is this an approved, safe thing?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

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Wells Oliver
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