Re: Keeping a Backup database in sync with the primary

From: Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Carlson, James (Jim)" <jcarlson(at)rti(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Keeping a Backup database in sync with the primary
Date: 2007-01-09 13:37:08
Message-ID: 200701090837.08254.sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 07:32, Carlson, James (Jim) wrote:
> I have two Linux servers running with one as a hot standby should the
> primary fail. It is not critical that they be in sync with every
> transaction, but I would like to sync them up with a cron job in the
> middle of the night.
>
>
>
> Dose anyone have a suggestion on how to do this?

You can certainly use a cron job to dump and reload the database, but you
might want to look at other ways of doing this such as:

http://slony.info

Sean

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