I used your suggestion and renamed online backup to incremental
backup, and added a mention that many database vendors call it online
backup.
Patch attached.
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Rick Gigger wrote:
How about:
use Online backup or Hot
Bruce Momjian wrote:
I used your suggestion and renamed online backup to incremental
backup, and added a mention that many database vendors call it
online backup.
Consistency would then demand that the other two be renamed to full
backup. I think we had better suggestions earlier.
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How about:
use Online backup or Hot backup to refer to either method of back
since they are both done while the system is online or hot.
If you want to get specific refer to doing a sql dump etc for using
pg_dump
Then use Incremental backup to refer to the whole process of the
WAL
I think it would all make more sense if we described the use of
archive_command = something as being in WAL Archive Mode. That would
then allow us to say:
You can only take Online Backups while in WAL Archive Mode.
If you ever wish to perform PITR, you must use WAL Archive Mode.
If you backed-up
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 13:46 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
I suggest the following patch to rename our capability Continuous
Backup.
This doesn't seem like an improvement. Online backup is the standard
terminology AFAIK.
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
I suggest the following patch to rename our capability Continuous
Backup.
This doesn't seem like an improvement. Online backup is the standard
terminology AFAIK.
regards, tom lane
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Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes:
I suggest the following patch to rename our capability Continuous
Backup.
This doesn't seem like an improvement. Online backup is the standard
terminology AFAIK.
But why is it the standard terminology? It doesn't seem
