Nicos Panayides wrote:
> Hi,
> I am planning an off-site backup solution for a fairly busy 
> (mostly-write) 8.3 database. The database is currently about 200GB in 
> size. I though about using log shipping and cold standby since it's easy 
> in terms of administration and also offers point in time recovery.
> 
> The database generates about 3 PITR log files per minute. If my 
> calculations are correct the sites need to be connected with a 7MBit 
> connection and the logs will need about 68GB of storage per day!
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to significantly reduce the 
> volume of log files or recommend another off-site backup solution that 
> would require less bandwidth and storage?

I would use pg_lesslog to reduce the size of the WAL files:

        http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pglesslog/

However, there is a bug in pg_lesslog so I wouldn't use it until that is
fixed:

        http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2010-02/msg00005.php

Koichi, do you have any update on this?  I don't see that a new version
has been uploaded, and I also see no mention on the pgfoundry site about
the bug.

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