Anyway.. will do the pg_basebackup and see how it goes...
cheers guys
Patrick
2016-06-08 8:41 GMT+12:00 Patrick B <patrickbakerbr@xxxxxxxxx>:
yep.. pg_basebackup.... the problem is that the servers are in a different country.. and the DB is 2TBthe pg_basebackup will probably fail and I'll have to do a DUMP as I've already done with another slave time ago