Axel,

I'm so sorry, this is pretty much a database question and as such
out of my area of expertise.

There is no way to shutdown the application for the duration ?
That is what I've forced my Oracle dba to do.

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> Hi Brian,
> I have amanda running on two fileservers already. The box in question
> now is RedHat Linux 9.0 running a Postgresqul database. The Tapedrive is
> a DDS4 manual. 
> I am asking this question because I know of no way to export the
> database into a flat file before backup, or mirroring or freezing the
> database during backup.
> I was wondering if somebody did that before.
> cheers
> Axel
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:37, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > Axel,
> > 
> > Amanda is a scheduler, optionally compressing data but uses
> > OS native backup services, either the native form of dump
> > (ufsdump, xfsdump...) or most often some brand of "tar", what
> > OS are you running, what tools are available for backup and
> > what do Postgresql knowledgable people say about tools for
> > backing up the database ?
> > 
> > > Can I backup a life Postgresql Database with Amanda?
> > > 
> 
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