Re: Syncing Databases Weekly

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Benjamin Arai <barai(at)cs(dot)ucr(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Syncing Databases Weekly
Date: 2006-02-07 17:20:57
Message-ID: 43E8D6F9.6010105@archonet.com
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Benjamin Arai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am familiar with applications like slony for replications, I am looking
> for a technique for syncing a very large database every week for backup and
> redundancy purposes. More specifically, I do all my writes to a main server
> once a week, at the end of the updates I would like to automatically copy
> all of the data to a second server as a live backup in case the main system
> ever goes down.

PITR (Point In Time Recovery) - details in the manuals and recently
discussed on one of the lists.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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