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. > 2. Steps needed to recover the data in case of database crash or hardware crash. Keep regular backups with pg_dump -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
