Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-28 Thread Decibel!
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:58:36PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Assumptions: a. After pg_stop_backup(), Pg immediately recycles log files and hence wal logs can be copied to backup. This is a clean

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 19, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Assumptions: a. After pg_stop_backup(), Pg immediately recycles log files and hence wal logs can be copied to backup. This is a clean start. I don't believe so. ARAIK, all pg_stop_backup() does is remove the marker that pg_start_backup() put

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Assumptions: a. After pg_stop_backup(), Pg immediately recycles log files and hence wal logs can be copied to backup. This is a clean start. I don't believe so. ARAIK, all pg_stop_backup() does is

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-20 Thread Joey K.
I'm guessing you're in a hurry or in a pinch that you need to repost after one day on a weekend. I was waiting to let someone more knowledgeable answer, but I've had some experience with this, so I'll answer to the best of my ability. I apologize. I wasn't sure if my first email ended up

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-19 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Joey K. wrote: After reading the docs, PITR is still fuzzy. Our ideas for backup are (do not worry about the syntax), Maybe consider using LVM snapshots in conjunction with rdiff-backup as an option well. Simple to setup, simple to manage, no downtime, very space efficient. -- Best regards,

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-19 Thread Bill Moran
Joey K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I'm guessing you're in a hurry or in a pinch that you need to repost after one day on a weekend. I was waiting to let someone more knowledgeable answer, but I've had some experience with this, so I'll answer to the best of my ability. We have

[GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-18 Thread Joey K.
Greetings, We have several web applications with Pg 8.2.x running on isolated servers (~25). The database size on each machines (du -h pgdata) is ~2 GB. We have been using nightly filesystem backup (stop pg, tar backup to ftp, start pg) and it worked well. We would like to move to PITR backups