Re: Backup strategy

On 18/1/05 8:38 pm, "Lonni J Friedman" <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:23:23 +0000, Adam Witney <awitney(at)sghms(dot)ac(dot)uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am setting up the backup strategy for my database.
>>
>> The database contains around 25 tables containing quite a lot of data that
>> does not change very much (and when it does it is changed by me). And around
>> 20 tables containing data which will be created and updated by the users
>> regularly.
>>
>> I would like to backup the two sets of data separately at different
>> intervals. The first set only when I update it and the second set several
>> times per day.
>>
>> Would it be best to set up a separate schema for the "static" tables? If so
>> what would be the simplest and safest way to transfer these tables into a
>> new schema?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>
> pg_dump allows you to backup individual tables. Once you do that, you
> could import them into a new database.

Would this take care of sequences and any other associated objects also?

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