From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:10:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots. X-Git-Tag: REL8_1_0BETA1~1187 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=118bf5bc226ed023263486fcd5639918185003ed;p=postgresql Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml index 00efde7ee2..01d023aae0 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Backup and Restore @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ tar -cf backup.tar /usr/local/pgsql/data If your database is spread across multiple volumes (for example, - data files and WAL log on different disks) there may not be any way + if you are using tablespaces) there may not be any way to obtain exactly-simultaneous frozen snapshots of all the volumes. Read your file system documentation very carefully before trusting to the consistent-snapshot technique in such situations. The safest