Re: Is pg_basebackup also for "regular" backups?

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: "Daniel Serodio (lists)" <daniel(dot)lists(at)mandic(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is pg_basebackup also for "regular" backups?
Date: 2012-10-15 20:38:01
Message-ID: CABUevEz3nDGpww1xpbrzAzc1WHU7S+Sisw1STX8L4zESZ-bMjg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Serodio (lists)
<daniel(dot)lists(at)mandic(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
> I was reading the documentation for pg_basebackup and it states that
> resulting backups "can be used both for point-in-time recovery and as the
> starting point for a log shipping or streaming replication standby servers".
>
> Should pg_basebackup also be used for "regular" backups, or only for
> PITR/streaming replication?

It's for "regular backups", based off PITR.

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