Re: Incremental Backup of a particular database

Yes Database size is going to grow very large over time. The situation is
going to be like this that ther is one central server where n nr of
databases are there.
I want one of these databases to be restored to the Other database Server.
What i have found so far implies tht the whole of database server will be
restored not one particular database.

Any light on this ??

Regards,
Yogvinder Singh,
Software Engineer, E-WorkStyle Group,
Newgen Software Technologies Ltd.
D-152, Okhla Phase - 1
Tel no 26815467 Ext 143

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eduardo J. Ortega" <ejortegau(at)cable(dot)net(dot)co>
To: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Incremental Backup of a particular database

> Not sure, but i think WAL based incremental backup is for the whole
database
> cluster, and not for an specific database, so don't think this is going to
> work for you. Is yoor database too large? If not, you could stick to the
old
> fashioned pg_dump output.
>
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:23, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > Yes, I guess that is true with 8.2 but with a few configurations for WAL
> > copying scripts.
> >
> > Saw the following in documentation that specifies a good flow for doing
it
> > --> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/warm-standby.html
> >
> > ---------------
> > Shoaib Mir
> > EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)
> >
> > On 1/17/07, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) <
> >
> > andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> > > Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > > > Even with ver 8.1 you can use WAL archive backups (PITR) to
implement
> > > > an incremental backup strategy.
> > >
> > > Yes, true, but it's harder with 8.1 as you always have to start from a
> > > base backup and roll WAL logs forward - without a custom script you
> > > cannot "wait" for new WAL logs to arrive and apply them on top of a
base
> > > backup.
> > > There is a project in PgFoundry to allow for warm-standby in the 8.0
and
> > > 8.1 series, however this is reportedly built-in to 8.2 now.
> > >
> > > > -------------
> > > > Shoaib Mir
> > > > EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com>)
> > > >
> > > > On 1/17/07, *Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)*
> > > > <andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk
> > > > <mailto:andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I believe the option for a "warm standby" (which sounds like it
is
> > > > what
> > > > you need) was made available in 8.2.0.
> > > > You'd have to look at the manual though, I haven't had time to
> > > > investigate, and I'm not sure whether it's cluster-wide, or
> > > > database-specific.
> > > >
> > > > Yogvinder Singh wrote:
> > > > > Hi Ppl,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have Two PostgreSQL Database Servers. The situation is like
> > >
> > > this:-
> > >
> > > > > 1) On first database server ball the operations (i.e live
> > > >
> > > > server) will
> > > >
> > > > > be done. This server may contain n number of databases.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2) On the second database server, i want to keep one
particular
> > > > > database (from the first database server ) and keep it
updated
> > > >
> > > > to the
> > > >
> > > > > latest from the First Database Server. I just want to be able
to
> > > >
> > > > take
> > > >
> > > > > some sort of incremental backup from the first server and
restore
> > >
> > > it
> > >
> > > > > to the second server.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this situation feasible. How can i take an incremental
backup
> > > >
> > > > of a
> > > >
> > > > > particular database out of many databases? On which version
this
> > >
> > > is
> > >
> > > > > supported? IF not supported, is there any alternative way to
> > >
> > > handle
> > >
> > > > > this situatio.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Yogvinder Singh,
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