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- <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.143 2010/02/22 11:47:30 heikki Exp $ -->
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+ <!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.144 2010/02/22 17:15:10 momjian Exp $ -->
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<chapter id="backup">
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<title>Backup and Restore</title>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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+ <note>
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+ <para>
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+ <application>pg_dump</application> and
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+ <application>pg_dumpall</application> do not produce file-system-level
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+ backups and cannot be used as part of a continuous-archiving solution.
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+ Such dumps are <emphasis>logical</> and do not contain enough
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+ information to used by WAL reply.
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+ </para>
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+ </note>
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<para>
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As with the plain file-system-backup technique, this method can only
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support restoration of an entire database cluster, not a subset.
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Perform the backup, using any convenient file-system-backup tool
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- such as <application>tar</> or <application>cpio</>. It is neither
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+ such as <application>tar</> or <application>cpio</> (not
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+ <application>pg_dump</application> or
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+ <application>pg_dumpall</application>). It is neither
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necessary nor desirable to stop normal operation of the database
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while you do this.
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</para>
You can’t perform that action at this time.
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