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> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:58:33 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Richard Broersma  wrote:
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>> From: Richard Broersma 
>> Subject: [GENERAL] PITR - base backup question
>> To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:53 PM
>> From the following link:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP
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>> Step 3 says to perform the back up.
>> 
>>     Does this mean a File System Backup of the Data
>> directory?\

It is a file system backup, we use PITR and every time we need a new checkpoint 
we create a TAR file of the postgresql home directory


>> OR
>>     Does this mean performing a pg_dumpall and backing up
>> the dump file?
>> 
> is a file system backup of he data directory
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>> Regards,
>> Richard Broersma Jr.
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