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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.99 2007/07/16 22:20:51 momjian Exp $ --> |
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.100 2007/09/14 04:15:50 momjian Exp $ --> |
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<chapter id="backup"> |
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<title>Backup and Restore</title> |
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<para> |
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Some backup tools that you might wish to use emit warnings or errors |
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if the files they are trying to copy change while the copy proceeds. |
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This situation is normal, and not an error, when taking a base backup of |
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an active database; so you need to ensure that you can distinguish |
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This situation is normal, and not an error, when taking a base backup |
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of an active database; so you need to ensure that you can distinguish |
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complaints of this sort from real errors. For example, some versions |
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of <application>rsync</> return a separate exit code for <quote>vanished |
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source files</>, and you can write a driver script to accept this exit |
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code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of GNU |
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<application>tar</> consider it an error if a file is changed while |
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<application>tar</> is copying it. Fortunately, GNU |
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<application>tar</> versions 1.16 and later exit with <literal>1</> |
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if files changed during the backup, and <literal>2</> for other errors. |
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of <application>rsync</> return a separate exit code for |
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<quote>vanished source files</>, and you can write a driver script to |
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accept this exit code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of |
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GNU <application>tar</> consider it an error if a file was truncated |
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while <application>tar</> is copying it. Fortunately, GNU |
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<application>tar</> versions 1.16 and later exits with <literal>1</> |
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if a file was changed during the backup, and <literal>2</> for other |
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errors. |
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</para> |
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<para> |
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