Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup issues

2012-04-24 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 19:51, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> Anyway, lesson learned, I need to either invoke pg_basebackup as the >> same user that runs the database (or is specified with the -U >> parameter ?), or write the backup somewhere

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup issues

2012-04-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 19:51, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > Greetings, > I'm running postgresql-9.1.3 on a Linux-x86_64 (Fedora16, if it > matters) system.  I noticed the existence of pg_basebackup starting in > 9.1, and figured I'd try it out and see if it would simplify our > backup & management pr

[GENERAL] pg_basebackup issues

2012-04-20 Thread Lonni J Friedman
Greetings, I'm running postgresql-9.1.3 on a Linux-x86_64 (Fedora16, if it matters) system. I noticed the existence of pg_basebackup starting in 9.1, and figured I'd try it out and see if it would simplify our backup & management processes. I setup a test system (same OS & postgresql version as p