Re: incremental backups?

On 6/22/2004 11:51 PM, mike g wrote:

> Slony version 1 is supposed to be live very soon. You can test beta3 if
> you like.

Slony-I version 1.0 is out now. It does not contain incremental backup.
This feature is on the TODO list for 1.1.

Jan

>
> Perhaps pgpool could help you. Version 2 was just released.
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 22:28, Joel Matthew wrote:
>> My boss was asking about incremental backups.
>>
>> I was scratching my head, thinking that the transaction log and a backup
>> policy (script) for each record set (sorry about the archaic terminology)
>> was the usual solution. But there is a some resistance against writing
>> more code, so I'm wondering what the current state of affairs with
>> postgresql in regards to incremental backup would be.
>>
>> A quick search of the lists produced the following:
>>
>> Bruce talks in November 2002 about plans for point-in-time recovery in v.
>> 7.4, but last December says it isn't there yet.
>>
>> Jan mentions Slony-I replication back last January.
>>
>> Somebody threw in some chatter about XLog.
>>
>> Scott metioned briefly last August the possibility of combining a live
>> data server with an archive server, or of using a daily schema.
>>
>> What's the typical user doing for incrementals, besides going to a
>> commercial server?
>
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