> Quick question, you mentioned LVM snapshots, and I am not aware what > it does! Is there any doc that explains it? Can you point me to some > such resources?
Newer LVM versions support read/write snapshots [essentially cheap clone of all partition data]. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html is good document about them. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
