That gives me an idea what others are doing.
Thank you Mark, : ) > Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:24:28 -0500 > From: postg...@lambic.co.uk > To: compuguruchrisbar...@hotmail.com > CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Looking for a script that performs full online backup > of postgres in archive mode > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:15:03AM -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: > > Would anyone in the postgres community have a shell script that > > performs a full online backup of postgres? > > Here's roughly what we do: > > REMOTE="foo" > DATA="/srv/pgdata" > WAL="/var/lib/pgsql/wal-archive" > PSQL="/usr/bin/psql" > RSYNC="/usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -qxat --delete" > > if [ "$1" == "data" ]; then > # Do full backup of data directory > ${PSQL} -c "SELECT pg_start_backup('mirror');" >/dev/null > ${RSYNC} ${DATA} ${REMOTE}/${DATA} > ${PSQL} -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup();" >/dev/null > > elif [ "$1" == "wal" ]; then > # Just copy the latest write-ahead logs > ${RSYNC} ${WAL} ${REMOTE}/${WAL} > ${RSYNC} ${DATA}/pg_xlog/ ${REMOTE}/${DATA}/pg_xlog > > else > # Don't know what you want > echo "Usage: $0 [data|wal]" > exit 1 > fi > > -- > Mark > http://www.lambic.co.uk > _________________________________________________________________ Eligible CDN College & University students can upgrade to Windows 7 before Jan 3 for only $39.99. Upgrade now! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9691819