Re: Seeking datacenter PITR backup suggestions

[Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> In your scenario, what about using "cp -l" (or "ln") instead? Since the
> hard-link it is only creating a new pointer, it will be very fast and
> save a bunch of disk IO on your server and it doesn't appear that the
> tempdir is for much other than organizing purposes anyway.

Note that that will only work if you're creating the link on the same
filesystem, and having /tmp and your data in the same filesystem isn't
such a hot idea.
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