Re: [GENERAL] Backup - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Backup
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Msg-id 1201786128.4453.287.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Backup  (Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Backup  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Re: [GENERAL] Backup  (Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com>)
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On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:21 -0500, Chander Ganesan wrote:
> If you don't mind if you lose some transactions

That sentence has no place in any discussion about "backup" because the
risk is not just a few transactions, it is a corrupt and inconsistent
database from which both old and new data would be inaccessible.

As far as I am concerned, if any Postgres user loses data then we're all
responsible.

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  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com


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