Real time backup options.

From: Michael Lush <mjlush(at)ebi(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Real time backup options.
Date: 2008-02-08 12:22:47
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0802081128130.8708@pigeon.ebi.ac.uk
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I run a modest postgres database manualy edited (via a web fron end) by
3-4 people. So the number of transactions is comparativly low.

I'd like to set up some sort of real time backups

The problem is I only have one server to run postgers on so I suspect its
a bad idea to run two instances of postgres one running on a local hard
disk the other on a NAS disk and replecate between the two.

In terms of disaster recovery I don't need anything fancy. Just the
ability to restore from a weekly pg_dumpall then replay the subsiquent
transactions from a NAS disk.

What options should I look at? Am I reduced to turning the logging up to
11 and stripping out the non-SQL statements?

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Michael
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