Re: 0 % Data lost

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: "Ing(dot) Jhon Carrillo // Caracas, Venezuela" <jhon(dot)carrillo(dot)foros(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 0 % Data lost
Date: 2005-12-15 20:45:19
Message-ID: 20051215204519.GB40699@pervasive.com
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The only way to get 0% data loss is some form of syncronous replication,
which is rather difficult to implement, especially across a WAN.

There is pgCluster and pgpool, both of which do syncronous replication,
but it's also statement based which has some serious rammifications.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:11:07PM -0400, Ing. Jhon Carrillo // Caracas, Venezuela wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to use PITR for to do backup in a critical enviroment, but this
> configuration save the segment files in the backup directory only when the
> segment file (in pg_xlog) is full, ?Is there any way to configure the WAL
> like a real online backup?
>
>
> In my enviroment is necesary the 0% data lost, any idea?.
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Jhon Carrillo
> IT Senior Engineer
> Caracas-Venezuela

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