Re: scheduled backup

Am Freitag, den 21.10.2005, 12:22 -0500 schrieb Apu Islam:
> I need suggestion to backup my postgresql server. The database is
> growing 1/2 Gb a day and I am looking for a solution that would push
> the data off to the backup server periodically with minimal amount of
> load to the server (I am trying to avoid table locking). I am thinking
> to use rsync to sync the data directories periodically. will that
> allow me to retrieve the data in case of a disaster ? what is the best
> practise ?

If you have big amount of data changes, continous backup of
the WAL files for point-in-time recovery is probably a good
solution. Especially if you can afford a 2nd box where the
data is continously replayed.

See:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-online.html