Re: [GENERAL] Backups using Solaris ZFS Snapshots

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Nolan
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Yunong J Xiao wrote: > I am currently backing up my postgres instances using ZFS snapshots > instead of the sanctioned pg_dump utility mainly because I am running on > Solaris and it offers a copy-on-write file system. Anecdotally this has > been working fine for

[GENERAL] Backups using Solaris ZFS Snapshots

2012-04-24 Thread Yunong J Xiao
I am currently backing up my postgres instances using ZFS snapshots instead of the sanctioned pg_dump utility mainly because I am running on Solaris and it offers a copy-on-write file system. Anecdotally this has been working fine for me. Are there any issues I should be aware of since I'm not usin