Re: Incremental Backups in postgres

Hi All -
                  I have read the document got a reasonable
understanding of the WAL process. I have some confusion regarding the
process.

1. I have set up the archiving process. Now the archive file are going
to a different mount point.
2. I set up job to create a back up of the PGDATA directory

Are the 2 above steps enough for recovery. My confusion is why we need
to have  Making a Base Backup. When you have time can you please
clarify?

Regards

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 10 November 2009, akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > So Is it always good to have the backup using PG_dump instead of PITR or
> > a combination of both
> >
>
> I like to do both. Ongoing PITR, daily base backups (by updating an rsync
> copy), and weekly pg_dumps that in turn go to tape.
>
> PITR gives a very recent restore point in the event of server loss. As
> previously mentioned, the full (custom) backups let you restore individual
> tables. They're also a lot smaller than base backups + WAL logs.
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