Re: Proposal: Incremental Backup

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, desmodemone <desmodemone(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marco Nenciarini <marco(dot)nenciarini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Incremental Backup
Date: 2014-08-07 15:25:28
Message-ID: 20140807152528.GC17563@momjian.us
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 08:35:53PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > There are some data which don't have LSN, for example, postgresql.conf.
> > When such data has been modified since last backup, they also need to
> > be included in incremental backup? Probably yes.
> Definitely yes. That's as well the case of paths like pg_clog,
> pg_subtrans and pg_twophase.

I assumed these would be unconditionally backed up during an incremental
backup because they relatively small and you don't want to make a mistake.

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