[Pgpool-general] Copying databses in replication mode

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> In replication tutorial for copying database from one host to another (on
> first stage of recovery)
> "tar" and "cp" commands used. But for large databases it will be a lot of
> data to copy and
> overal process will consume from hours to days... So the question: is it
> possible to use rsync
> on pgdata folder instead of full cp?
> I suppose that in case of usual maintainance it will be not so much
> differneces between one server and another.
> Best regards!

You can safely use rsync in this case.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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