Re: AW: Big 7.1 open items

Don Baccus wrote:
> At 10:04 AM 6/15/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
> >
> >This is not true. In my DBA history it would have saved me manweeks
> >of work if an easy and efficient restore of one single table from backup
> >would have been available in Informix and Oracle.
> >We allways had to restore most of the whole system to another machine only
> >to get back at some table info that would then be manually re-added
> >to the production system.
>
> I'm missing something, I guess. You would do a createdb, do a filesystem
> copy of pg_log and one file into it, and then read data from the table
> without having to restore the other tables in the database?
>
> I'm just curious - when was the last time you restored a Postgres
> database in this piecemeal manner, and how often do you do it?

More curios to me is that people seem to use physical file
based backup at all. Do they shutdown the postmaster during
backup or do they live with the fact that maybe not every
backup is a vital one?

Jan

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