> I advise against hard disk based backups:
Don't write off disk backups yet. I would have (and did) a year ago,
but in the last six months things have gotten a lot cheaper.
> It's not cheap, sure, a tape drive is expensive, but the tapes are quite
> cheap.
>
> The cheapness of the tapes allow
> Can anyone make suggestions on backup systems? I was thinking that
> some sort of DVD writing system would be good for accessing one or two
> files in the backup quickly. It would probably also complete backups
> faster. However, I think DVD's only hold a few Gigs on them. Are there
> systems l
> Not sure. Does /contrib/pg_resetxlog help? Try running it.
That would have helped quite a bit. It's too late now, but it's
something I'll remember for next time. Thanks.
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I had a hardware error on my server and lost the WAL files. I can
restore my data, but because of the size of the database that'll take at
least 12 hours. Is there any way to start the server without the
transaction logs?
--Nate
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I had a hardware error on my server and lost the WAL files. I can
restore my data, but because of the size of the database that'll take at
least 12 hours. Is there any way to start the server without the
transaction logs?
--Nate
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