John McCawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Don't store your images in the database.  Store them on the filesystem and
> store their path in the database.  Anyone that tells you otherwise is a stark
> raving madman :)
>
> My system is very heavily used, and our pg_dump is only a few gigs.  Meanwhile
> our images/documents storage is well over a hundred gigs.  I'd hate to think
> that I'd have to dump and restore 100 gigs every time I wanted to dump the
> newest data to the development database.

How do you plan your backup routine and how do you guarantee that on a failure
all needed data is restored?  I mean, how do you handle integrity with data
outside the database?

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Jorge Godoy      <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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