Re: Point in time Recovery in Postgres?

Hi Shreeyansh,

Thanks for confirmation. Actually did PITR with basebackup.

Wanted to know if it could be done by using dump bkp.

Anyways, thanks for confirmation

Regards,
Pavan

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 11:17 AM Shreeyansh Dba <shreeyansh2014(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi Pavan,
>
> PITR is the ability to restore a database cluster up to the present or to
> a specified point of time in the past with the help of WAL’s. PITR uses
> full database cluster backup and the write-ahead logs(i.e WAL’s). For that
> we should have cluster level (file system level) backup like pg_basebackup.
>
> In PostgreSQL it is possible to have PITR but it requires file system
> level backup (like pg_basebackup).
> So, It is not possible to do PITR with pg_dump backup.
>
> <http://www.shreeyansh.com>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:14 AM pavan95 <pavan(dot)postgresdba(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to do PITR in postgres for a database provided that
>> database
>> pg_dump backup is available and archive logs are also configured....
>>
>> Could you please confirm? Thanks in Advance!!
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pavan
>>
>>
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