From: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Online backup vs Continuous backup |
Date: | 2005-12-27 20:14:55 |
Message-ID: | 41278.68.143.134.146.1135714495.squirrel@www.dunslane.net |
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Greg Stark said:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
>> I noticed that we are using the term "Online Backup" in our
>> documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR.
>>
>> To me, "online backup" is doing a backup while the system is online
>> (online-backup), and that is accomplished by pg_dump.
>
> Well fwiw what pg_dump does isn't even considered a "backup" at all in
> other systems. It's a "logical export" or something of that sort.
>
> It's not considered a "backup" because it's saving something different
> than the actual physical database. When you restore you get something
> (hopefully) logically equivalent but still physically different.
This seems fairly arbitrary. On that basis anything on a higher level than
dd is not a backup method, ISTM.
cheers
andrew
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