Re: Backup

From: "Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Eduardo J(dot) Ortega" <ejortegau(at)cable(dot)net(dot)co>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backup
Date: 2006-12-13 07:39:18
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To me PITR looks like a very nice solution for incremental backup and even
they can serve as a warm standby. What exactly are the complications you see
with WAL archiving?

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 12/13/06, Eduardo J. Ortega <ejortegau(at)cable(dot)net(dot)co> wrote:
>
> Hi there:
>
> Are there any nice (official or third party) backup utilities for
> postgres? I
> have a database which is several GB, so pg_dumping it to file and then
> bzipping2 every hour is not really the way to go. I've read a little about
> using WAL for incremental backup, but it sounds a little complicated and
> *very* user-error prone.
>
> (Not sure if this is the right place for it, but i really think that PG's
> developers should consider including a viable backup utility in the next
> version)
>
> thanks.
>
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