Re: [GENERAL] Final pg_dumpall should happen in Single-User-Mode

2017-09-27 Thread Thomas Güttler
Just for the records, I use this solution now: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/186045/how-do-i-prevent-changes-to-my-database/186051#186051 Change the port of PostgreSQL on prod-server-old. This way it is unlikely that clients connect to the DB during pg_dumpall --port=OTHER_PORT BTW:

Re: [GENERAL] Final pg_dumpall should happen in Single-User-Mode

2017-09-20 Thread Thomas Güttler
Just for the records, I asked here the same question and got some replies: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/186045/how-do-i-prevent-changes-to-my-database Am 11.09.2017 um 15:25 schrieb Thomas Güttler: I did a stupid mistake. I run the final pg_dumpall without switching to single-user-m

[GENERAL] Final pg_dumpall should happen in Single-User-Mode

2017-09-11 Thread Thomas Güttler
I did a stupid mistake. I run the final pg_dumpall without switching to single-user-mode first. With "final" I mean that the dump should be transferred to a different machine. After the dump the old machine was shut down forever. My mistake was that I stopped the services, but one process was