Re: deployment query

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Nagalingam, Karthikeyan" <KARTHIKEYAN(dot)Nagalingam(at)netapp(dot)com>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: deployment query
Date: 2009-03-17 05:26:23
Message-ID: dcc563d10903162226h1b301dd7gacada7c7c1eea4d4@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Nagalingam, Karthikeyan
<KARTHIKEYAN(dot)Nagalingam(at)netapp(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks Stefan for all your answers. My last question is "What is the
> Mostly used Disaster Recovery Solution for Postgresql in storage
> environment."

We use two methods of backup to keep the database afloat amid things
going horribly wrong. We have 1 or more slony backup dbs that allow
for failover and load balancing. We have offsite pg_dump backups
which are transferred via ssh to an offsite server in case of
catastrophic failure in the data center (like a huge power surge) that
kills both servers.

We routinely restore backup sets or parts of them for various testing scenarios.

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