pg_basebackup
pg_basebackup
Name
pg_basebackup -- take a base backup of a PostgreSQL clusterSynopsis
pg_basebackup [option...]
Description
pg_basebackup is used to take base backups of a running PostgreSQL database cluster. These are taken without affecting other clients to the database, and can be used both for point-in-time recovery (see Section 24.3) and as the starting point for a log shipping or streaming replication standby servers (see Section 25.2).
pg_basebackup makes a binary copy of the database cluster files, while making sure the