| From: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
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| To: | Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, thm(at)duke(dot)edu |
| Subject: | Re: Long term database archival |
| Date: | 2006-07-07 11:18:10 |
| Message-ID: | 44AE42F2.2090103@wildenhain.de |
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Csaba Nagy schrieb:
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> Karl, I would say that if you really want data from 20 years ago, keep
> it in the custom format, along with a set of the sources of postgres
> which created the dump. then in 20 years when you'll need it, you'll
> compile the sources and load the data in the original postgres
> version... of course you might need to also keep an image of the current
> OS and the hardware you're running on if you really want to be sure it
> will work in 20 years :-)
No need - you will just emulate the whole hardware in 20 years ;-)
Regards
Tino
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