[Info-vax] backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-29 16:23:26 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> ok first what is endless september?

My bad.  http://www.eternal-september.org

> as far as databases we do a freeze of the application and while the dbs 
> are acquiesced we do a copy to a clone and backup the whole cloned 
> disk.  so we get all files including the cache.dat files.

I wouldn't bet on that approach working in all cases, particularly if 
the databases have caches, and if the database has tools to generate 
(consistent) backups.


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