Re: Basic Question on Point In Time Recovery

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:40:09AM -0400, Joseph Kregloh wrote:
> > Have you looked into Barman? http://www.pgbarman.org/ It does what you
> > want. You can take a full daily backup and it keeps track of the WAL
> files
> > to allow for a PITR.
>
> I just had a look at the documentation (and the rest of your mail),
> and this doesn't actually seem to do what the OP wanted, which is to
> get PITR _per database_ in the same cluster. Upthread someone
> suggested a way around this, which is to PITR a cluster to a
> known-good point and then pg_dump the target database.

This is where Barman comes in. It would take care of handling all of the
stuff required for a PITR. Then he can do the pg_dump for a selected
database. Barman does backup the entire cluster.

> But if Barman
> can do this automatically, that'd be cool (it's just not in the docs).
>
> Barman does look like a nice convenience package for managing
> WAL-shipping type backup installations instead of building one's own
> scripts, so this note isn't intended as a criticism of the package.
> I'm just not sure it does the thing requested in this case.
>
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