Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup

From: Ilya Kosmodemiansky <ilya(dot)kosmodemiansky(at)postgresql-consulting(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump vs pg_basebackup
Date: 2014-03-25 15:29:11
Message-ID: CAG95seWXZo9O_AJs_cNyiyw8obN7guaeRutzDCN1oaiGTReP6w@mail.gmail.com
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Joshua,

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
The advantage is that you can create backups that don't
> have to be restored, just started. You can also use the differential
> portions of rsync to do it multiple times a day without much issue.

Are you sure, that it is a nice idea on a database with heavy write workload?

And also Im not sure, that differential backups using rsync will be
recoverable, if you have actually meant that.

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