Re: [Gnumed-devel] update database - no problem

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > This weekend I have finally gotten around to update our production server 
> > using GNUmed as a document archive for the proprietory software Turbomed. 
> > All 
> > I had to do was run the provided update script. This took care of a backup 
> > and started the update process. The backup which included compressing it 
> > with 
> > bzip took about 5 hours for a 5 Gigabyte database containing roughly 1500 
> > patients and up to 20 documents per patient.
> > 
> > The client has been installed on the Windows hosts and runs without 
> > problems.
> > 
> 
> what sort of hardware for backup ?  
AMD 64 3500+
1 GB RAM

> anyone using partition image backup , or snapshot filesystem backup,
> and howto ?
partition image/filesystem snapshot require stopping PG,
WAL-based backups would be a better choice

Karsten
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