From: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
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To: | Apu Islam <apuislam(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: scheduled backup |
Date: | 2005-10-21 18:10:57 |
Message-ID: | 1129918257.23228.10.camel@Andrea.peacock.de |
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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
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