| From: | Allan Berger <alb2(at)cornell(dot)edu> |
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| To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: One big database or little separate ones? |
| Date: | 2004-01-11 18:46:45 |
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Hi all,
This is a great topic for me, as I'm just now starting to consider
this very issue.
Is there any advantage to maintaining separate databases for backup purposes?
Specifically, I am going to have a large number of tables with text
info, and just a few tables that saves several gigabytes of images
and data files. I was thinking of having the text data in one
database to allow for frequent backups (every few hours), with the
large image and file database backed up less frequently (once a day
or less frequently).
Is the balance in backing up several hundred megs of text data
frequently v. several gigabytes of less critical binary data a good
reason to maintain separate databases? All thoughts welcome...
-Allan
At 3:11 PM -0800 1/10/04, Eric Frazier wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The only reason to separate databases, is if the data has no relation
>from one DB to another. Otherwise, you are just making things hard on
>yourself.
>
>Eric
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