From: | akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | silly8888 <silly8888(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Incremental Backups in postgres |
Date: | 2009-11-10 22:25:15 |
Message-ID: | 2024a9fb0911101425g5e275688j3592fa7208ce621c@mail.gmail.com |
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I have set up the replication using Bucardo. This is just an additional set
up
regards
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, silly8888 <silly8888(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> How about using replication instead of incremental backups?
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 November 2009, akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> So Is it always good to have the backup using PG_dump instead of PITR or
> >> a combination of both
> >>
> >
> > I like to do both. Ongoing PITR, daily base backups (by updating an rsync
> > copy), and weekly pg_dumps that in turn go to tape.
> >
> > PITR gives a very recent restore point in the event of server loss. As
> > previously mentioned, the full (custom) backups let you restore
> individual
> > tables. They're also a lot smaller than base backups + WAL logs.
> >
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