Re: PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery

From: Jayadevan <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery
Date: 2013-10-25 06:06:50
Message-ID: 1382681210092-5775872.post@n5.nabble.com
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Jeff Janes wrote
> I restore from my base backup plus WAL quite often. It is how I get a
> fresh dev or test instance when I want one. (It is also how I have
> confidence that everything is working well and that I know what I'm doing
> should the time come to do a real restore). When that starts to take an
> annoyingly long time, I run a new base backup. How often that is, can be
> anywhere from days to months, depending on what's going on in the
> database.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

That makes sense. So we take a new base backup once we feel "Hey , recovery
may take time". Thanks.

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