Re: Backup

From: "Phillip Smith" <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "'Dominic Carlucci'" <carlucci(at)cae(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: <carlucci(at)cae(dot)ca>
Subject: Re: Backup
Date: 2008-01-25 00:34:02
Message-ID: 00a201c85ee9$fbd1ca00$9b0014ac@wbaus090
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> We have a center in Europe who has just started to use PostgreSQL and was
> asking me if there are any Symantec product or other products that backup
> this type of database.

It doesn't appear to. I've just been through the whole rigmarole of
BackupExec for some Windows Servers, and I couldn't find anything to deal
with PostgreSQL.

Just dump Postgres to the File System and backup that dump. Depends on what
your Recovery Point requirements are.

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