Re: Incremental backup

From: Patrick Macdonald <patrickm(at)redhat(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 19:26:25
Message-ID: 3E4BF161.AF1EBF0A@redhat.com
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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.

Cheers,
Patrick

> It will be in 7.4.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Martin Marques wrote:
> > How's this issue going on the 7.4 development tree?
> > I saw it on the TODO list, but didn't find much on the archives of this
> > mailing list.
> >
> > --
> > Porqu? usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
> > si pod?s usar PostgreSQL?
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