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From Jeff Frost
Subject Re: Clarification on pg_basebackup
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In response to Re: Clarification on pg_basebackup  ("Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu>)
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That's right.

BTW, rather than rolling your own solution, you probably want to look at a few off the shelf solutions like:




On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu> wrote:

Jason,
Thanks so much.  That makes sense.  That was what I was trying to communicate.  OPIT vs APIT. 
 
So if I am doing a APIT I can do a pg_basebackup each night without the –X option.  I save all WAL files.  If I need to restore during the day I then only have to restore from the last basebackup and apply all of the WAL files from that time forward.  Did I get that correct?    
 


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