Re: WAL files backup

What do you mean by indentical here? does it mean that they are same in
size, if that is true then yes they should be same in size unless you
specify archive_timeout (8.2 config parameter) setting to do a log switch
after certain amount of time.

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 2/12/07, pedro noticioso <cucnews(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
> hi there
>
> I lightly read this
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html
>
> and am interested in creating an incremental backup of
> WAL files, but my database is small so each of this
> WAL files must be almost identical to the previous
> one.
>
> Is there a way to incrementally backup so that it
> takes less space?
>
> thanks!
>
>
>
>
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