| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: block-level incremental backup |
| Date: | 2019-04-09 21:28:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20190409212838.GA7946@alvherre.pgsql |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On 2019-Apr-09, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-04-09 17:48, Robert Haas wrote:
> > 3. There should be a new tool that knows how to merge a full backup
> > with any number of incremental backups and produce a complete data
> > directory with no remaining partial files.
>
> Are there by any chance standard file formats and tools that describe a
> binary difference between directories? That would be really useful here.
VCDIFF? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3284
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Alvaro Herrera | 2019-04-09 22:34:35 | Re: pg_dump is broken for partition tablespaces |
| Previous Message | Bruce Momjian | 2019-04-09 21:26:13 | Re: [survey] New "Stable" QueryId based on normalized query text |