Slony version 1 is supposed to be live very soon. You can test beta3 if
you like.
Perhaps pgpool could help you. Version 2 was just released.
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 22:28, Joel Matthew wrote:
> My boss was asking about incremental backups.
>
> I was scratching my head, thinking that the transaction log and a backup
> policy (script) for each record set (sorry about the archaic terminology)
> was the usual solution. But there is a some resistance against writing
> more code, so I'm wondering what the current state of affairs with
> postgresql in regards to incremental backup would be.
>
> A quick search of the lists produced the following:
>
> Bruce talks in November 2002 about plans for point-in-time recovery in v.
> 7.4, but last December says it isn't there yet.
>
> Jan mentions Slony-I replication back last January.
>
> Somebody threw in some chatter about XLog.
>
> Scott metioned briefly last August the possibility of combining a live
> data server with an archive server, or of using a daily schema.
>
> What's the typical user doing for incrementals, besides going to a
> commercial server?