| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BakBone PostgreSQL Backup Utility |
| Date: | 2003-06-13 21:11:49 |
| Message-ID: | 200306131411.50256.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Scott,
> Looking over the manual
> http://www.bakbone.com/docs/APM_for_PostgreSQL_Users_Guide.pdf
> it would appear to simply be a gui front end for pg_dump / pg_dumpall.
>
> Either spend $1079 or learn how to write a crontab file...
>
> I'd rather write a check to the core developers than give my money to
> folks who are writing a pretty front end to the worlds simplest command
> line tool.
<grin> Actually, they wrote the utility for people who are already using
their enterprise back-up tool for network-wide backup; $1079 is for the
convenience of being able to admin all types of backup from a single console.
Which I'd be happy to recommend, if any of my clients had that kind of money
...
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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