13 Feb 2007 05:54:44 -0800, filippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello,
my database is not very big so I want to adopt this backup strategy:
I want to clone my database every 1 hour to another
database 'currenttime_mydatabase' in order to have 24 backup a day,
overwriting the yesterday backups by today-same-time backups.
This is good for me because I have all the backups readily available
to be read by my program (opening the backup read only). This is a
very important for my needs.
I'm writing a script run by cron each hour to do accomplish the backup
task.
My target is to have the backup operation not affecting the users, so
I want to be able to copy a database even if the database is used by
someone.
Can I use
CREATE DATABASE my_backup_database TEMPLATE current_database?
no. database used as template must not be accessed during copy
Is there a better way to get what I need?
you can script this:
pg_dump sourcedb | psql targetdb
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Filip Rembiałkowski
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