Re: Syncing Databases Weekly

From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
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 18:34:06
Message-ID: 43E8E81E.7010000@ca.afilias.info
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> You could use batch replication via Mammoth Replicator or PITR.
>
Slony's log shipping is another option.

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Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.

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