Re: best way to make incremental back-ups?

In article <200302171913(dot)h1HJDnr17243(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Sorry, we will have point-in-time recovery in 7.4. Right now, the only
> solution is a async replication using something like /contrib/dbmirror
> or /contrib/rserv.
>
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> Mel Jamero wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> What's the best way to make incremental back-ups?
>>
>> Is there a tool (GUI or otherwise, open source perhaps) for this?
>>
>> Red Hat Linux 7.2. PostgreSQL 7.1
>>

This may be really dumb, but would it be possible to do something
with pg_dump and diff ?

Especially if you use those special flags to pg_dump which tell it
to dump out just the table definitions or just the data....