Re: [ADMIN] advanced backup tool

2010-05-14 Thread Anj Adu
Thanks for the suggestions. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Anj Adu wrote: >> Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental  backup tool >> like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many >> frequent full backups (especially for large datab

Re: [ADMIN] advanced backup tool

2010-05-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Anj Adu wrote: > Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental backup tool > like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many > frequent full backups (especially for large databases) as the replay > of a large number of WAL files will take a very long time. We have

Re: [ADMIN] advanced backup tool

2010-05-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
Anj Adu wrote: > Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental backup > tool like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving > requires many frequent full backups (especially for large > databases) as the replay of a large number of WAL files will take > a very long time. We

Re: [ADMIN] advanced backup tool

2010-05-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 13:12 -0700, Anj Adu wrote: > Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental backup tool > like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many > frequent full backups (especially for large databases) as the replay > of a large number of WAL files w

[ADMIN] advanced backup tool

2010-05-14 Thread Anj Adu
Will any upcoming release of Postgres have an incremental backup tool like Oracle's RMAN? Currently, the WAL based archiving requires many frequent full backups (especially for large databases) as the replay of a large number of WAL files will take a very long time. We have a few databases each ov