Re: [HACKERS] Online backup vs Continuous backup

I used your suggestion and renamed "online backup" to "incremental
backup", and added a mention that many database vendors call it "online
backup".

Patch attached.

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Rick Gigger wrote:
> How about:
>
> use "Online backup" or "Hot backup" to refer to either method of back
> since they are both done while the system is online or hot.
>
> If you want to get specific refer to doing a "sql dump" etc for using
> pg_dump
> Then use "Incremental backup" to refer to the whole process of the
> WAL archival etc
> Refer to the actual log files themselves as transaction logs.
>
> That all seems to be pretty intuitive and non-ambiguous non-confusing
> to me.
>
> On Dec 26, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
> >> Backup".
> >
> > This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the
> > standard
> > terminology AFAIK.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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