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Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder

From	Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house>
Newsgroups	comp.databases.postgresql
Subject	Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder
Date	2017-04-19 20:11 +0100
Organization	shallowHouse
Message-ID	<20170419201146.02a1844344207bc63a19edcf@shallow.house> (permalink)
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:17:34 -0400
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

> Windows
> Postgres 9.6.2
> 
> On install I set the /data directory to a data drive (D:\)
> 
> How much trouble will it cause if I:
> 
> 1) backup that entire /data directory by copying it to a backup place
> 2) reinstall Postgres (and set the /data directory to the same
>     location as before)
> 3) copy over the new /data directory with my backup?
> 
> No pgdump - just copy and replace files.
> 
> 

This will be fine as long as the server(s) are stopped at the time of copy, 
and they are they running the same version.

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Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-15 23:17 -0400
  Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> - 2017-04-19 20:11 +0100
    Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-28 00:45 -0400
      Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> - 2017-05-02 00:07 +0100
        Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-02 11:48 -0400
          Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri.fontaine@schibsted.com> - 2017-05-03 09:16 +0200
            Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-03 16:07 -0400
            Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-20 20:01 -0400
              Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri.fontaine@schibsted.com> - 2017-05-21 13:46 +0200
                Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-21 08:48 -0400
                Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-31 07:29 -0400
                Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri.fontaine@schibsted.com> - 2017-05-31 14:26 +0200
                Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-31 09:52 -0400
                Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri.fontaine@schibsted.com> - 2017-05-31 16:27 +0200
          Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> - 2017-05-03 13:57 +0100
            Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-05-11 11:11 -0400
              Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-05-11 23:08 +0200
    Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Gordon Gekko <greed@is.good.invalid> - 2017-05-08 02:39 +0000
  Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2017-04-23 22:15 +0100
    Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-28 00:42 -0400
      Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2017-04-28 12:39 +0100
        Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-28 11:16 -0400
          Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2017-04-28 16:42 +0100
            Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> - 2017-04-28 16:48 +0100
              Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Terry Shanks <deep@shallow.house> - 2017-05-02 00:00 +0100
              Re: Issues with backing up Postgres by copying folder Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 02:41 +0000

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