| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Anj Adu <fotographs(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: advanced backup tool |
| Date: | 2010-05-14 20:17:21 |
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On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 13:12 -0700, Anj Adu wrote:
> Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental backup tool
> like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many
> frequent full backups (especially for large databases) as the replay
> of a large number of WAL files will take a very long time. We have a
> few databases each over 1Tb and are looking for effective
> backup/recovery strategies. (Currently..we rely on specific partition
> backups via COPY command)...but the process is cumbersome.
>
> RMAN's incremental backup effectively makes every incremental backup a
> full backup which is a great time-saver during recovery.
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