[ale] Postgreq backup help

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:31:54AM -0400, Phil Turmel wrote:
> If you really want to grab an entire instance for quick restore,
> consider using the Point-In-Time-Recovery filesystem snapshot method.
> With checkpoints and WAL logs, there's no downtime.  The pg_basebackup
> tool is the simplest way to get it done.
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP

FWIW I use pg_dumpall as part of a nightly cron job fired off by the 
'postgres' user so no permission mangling is needed.  The dump isn't 
that large (215MB compressed), and I then rsync that to a different 
system.

 - Solomon
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