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 > > -- 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
