| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
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| To: | Marco Nenciarini <marco(dot)nenciarini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Incremental backup: add backup profile to base backup |
| Date: | 2014-08-18 12:40:45 |
| Message-ID: | 53F1F44D.6010409@vmware.com |
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On 08/18/2014 03:04 AM, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> Hi Hackers,
>
> This is the first piece of file level incremental backup support, as
> described on wiki page https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_backup
>
> It is not yet complete, but I wish to share it on the list to receive
> comments and suggestions.
>
> The point of the patch is adding an option to pg_basebackup and
> replication protocol BASE_BACKUP command to generate a backup_profile file.
This is difficult to review in isolation. Would have to see the whole
solution to see if this makes sense.
If we ever want to make this more granular than per-file (and I think we
should, because otherwise you might as well just use rsync), how would
this be extended?
- Heikki
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