Re: Database separation for backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Database separation for backup
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Msg-id 20090312111542.GA3965@merkur.hilbert.loc
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In response to Database separation for backup  ("Nagalingam, Karthikeyan" <KARTHIKEYAN.Nagalingam@netapp.com>)
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:18:50PM +0530, Nagalingam, Karthikeyan wrote:

> Is there any way to keep each database in separate partition ie)
> separate folder for each database.
>
> I would like to do the dabase level backup in storage side, for that If
> I am able to separate the database in folderwise, I can allocate
> separate partition for each database. Then I can take the backup in each
> partition.


You can use tablespaces to separate things on disk but it
won't make taking filesystem level backups as easy as you
might hope.

Karsten
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