From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Online backup vs Continuous backup |
Date: | 2005-12-26 19:46:44 |
Message-ID: | Pine.OSF.4.61.0512262142170.236395@kosh.hut.fi |
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> I have never heard the term Continuous backup. Although I have heard
>> online backup. The problem is that when I hear the term online backup
>> I think Hot backup which is what we do with pg_dump.
>
> Yes, that is my problem too.
>
>> I would just call the other Point in time recovery :)
>
> The problem there is that it is "recovery", and the documentation talks
> about the "backup" step. I am thinking we are going to have to add
> something like "Continuous backup, also called Online Backup" or
> something like that.
FWIW, I believe "log archival" is a common term for that.
- Heikki
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