-
+
Backup and Restore
Some backup tools that you might wish to use emit warnings or errors
if the files they are trying to copy change while the copy proceeds.
- This situation is normal, and not an error, when taking a base backup of
- an active database; so you need to ensure that you can distinguish
+ This situation is normal, and not an error, when taking a base backup
+ of an active database; so you need to ensure that you can distinguish
complaints of this sort from real errors. For example, some versions
- of
rsync> return a separate exit code for vanished
- source files>, and you can write a driver script to accept this exit
- code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of GNU
-
tar> consider it an error if a file is changed while
-
tar> is copying it. Fortunately, GNU
-
tar> versions 1.16 and later exit with 1>
- if files changed during the backup, and 2> for other errors.
+ of
rsync> return a separate exit code for
+ vanished source files>, and you can write a driver script to
+ accept this exit code as a non-error case. Also, some versions of
+ GNU
tar> consider it an error if a file was truncated
+ while
tar> is copying it. Fortunately, GNU
+
tar> versions 1.16 and later exits with 1>
+ if a file was changed during the backup, and 2> for other
+ errors.