Re: Production Backup and Recovery

"P. Dwayne Miller" <dmiller(at)espgroup(dot)net> writes:

> Is it documented somewhere how to do on-line backups and then how to
> recover from some event using those backups with no (or minimum) loss of
> data?

Right now there is no PIT recovery. All you can do is run pg_dump
whenever you want to make a backup. This will take a consistent
snapshot of the database and write it out as SQL code that will
recreate the database..

There has been talk of using the new WAL (write-ahead log) feature to
enable point-in-time recovery, but it is not currently implemented.

-Doug
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