On 07/06/2006 06:14:39 PM, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the best pg_dump format for long-term database
>> archival? That is, what format is most likely to
>> be able to be restored into a future PostgreSQL
>> cluster.
> Anyway, 20 years is a _long_, _long_ time.
Yes, but our data goes back over 30 years now
and is never deleted, only added to, and I
recently had occasion to want to look at a
backup from 1994-ish. So, yeah we probably do
really want backups for that long. They
probably won't get used, but we'll feel better.
Thanks.
Karl <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
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