[HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread scott.marlowe
Hi Sandeep. What you were calling Hot Backup is really called Point in Time Recovery (PITR). Hot Backup means making a complete backup of the database while it is running, something Postgresql has supported for a very long time. On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Sandeep Chadha wrote: Hello to all the

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread Sandeep Chadha
I'd have agree on most of what you said. I still think most crashes occur due to data corruption which can only be recovered by using a good backup. Anyways my problem is I have a 5 gig database. I run a cron job every hour which runs pg_dump which takes over 30 minutes to run and degrades

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:46, Sandeep Chadha wrote: I'd have agree on most of what you said. I still think most crashes occur due to data corruption which can only be recovered by using a good backup. Anyways my problem is I have a 5 gig database. I run a cron job every hour which runs

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread Justin Clift
Rod Taylor wrote: snip Oh, if thats your problem then use asynchronous replication instead. For specific info, the contrib/rserv package does master-slave asynchronous replication as Rod is suggesting. From memory it was having troubles working with PostgreSQL 7.2.x, but someone recently

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Point in Time Recovery WAS: Hot Backup

2002-10-09 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:04, Justin Clift wrote: Rod Taylor wrote: snip Oh, if thats your problem then use asynchronous replication instead. For specific info, the contrib/rserv package does master-slave Thanks. I was having a heck of a time remembering what it was called or even