Re: Backup and failover process

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Lance Campbell" <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu>,<pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Backup and failover process
Date: 2008-07-15 17:24:10
Message-ID: 487C9741.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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>>> "Campbell, Lance" <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu> wrote:
> PostgreSQL: 8.2
> I am about to change my backup and failover procedure from dumping a
full
> file SQL dump of our data every so many minutes

You're currently running pg_dump every so many minutes?

> to using WAL files.

Be sure you have read (and understand) this section of the docs:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/backup.html

-Kevin

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