Re: Need Urgent Help in case of postgres Database Crash.

From: Sam Barnett-Cormack <s(dot)barnett-cormack(at)lancaster(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Sam Barnett-Cormack <s(dot)barnett-cormack(at)lancaster(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: Somasekhar Bangalore <sbangalore(at)zensutra(dot)com>, "" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need Urgent Help in case of postgres Database Crash.
Date: 2003-10-06 10:56:10
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.50.0310061155300.25723-100000@short.lancs.ac.uk
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Somasekhar Bangalore wrote:
>
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I am setting up a postgres 7.3 database for a big client.I don't want to lose any data in case of database crash or hardware failure . I need help in
> >
> > 1. Steps needed to setup the postgres database , is it posssible for me to write data on to two different disks. if so how?
>
> For data redundancy, I reccomend RAID level 0 or 5 - 5 is vastly
> superior, if you can afford it.

Sorry, RAID 1 or 5 - I always get 0 and 1 confused when I use the
numbers. 0 will improve performance but won't give any redundancy.

> > 2. Steps needed to recover the data in case of database crash or hardware crash.
>
> Keep regular backups with pg_dump
>
>

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
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