| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Patrick Macdonald <patrickm(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Incremental backup |
| Date: | 2003-02-13 19:38:05 |
| Message-ID: | 200302131938.h1DJc5t06898@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Patrick Macdonald wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Someone at Red Hat is working on point-in-time recovery, also known as
> > incremental backups.
>
> PITR and incremental backup are different beasts. PITR deals with a backup
> + logs. Incremental backup deals with a full backup + X smaller/incremental
> backups.
>
> So... it doesn't look like anyone is working on incremental backup at the
> moment.
But why would someone want incremental backups compared to PITR? The
backup would be mixture of INSERTS, UPDATES, and DELETES, right? Seems
pretty weird. :-)
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