Re: PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jayadevan
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery
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Msg-id 1382681210092-5775872.post@n5.nabble.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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Jeff Janes wrote
> I restore from my base backup plus WAL quite often.  It is how I get a
> fresh dev or test instance when I want one.  (It is also how I have
> confidence that everything is working well and that I know what I'm doing
> should the time come to do a real restore).  When that starts to take an
> annoyingly long time, I run a new base backup.  How often that is, can be
> anywhere from days to months, depending on what's going on in the
> database.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

That makes sense. So we take a new base backup once we feel "Hey , recovery
may take time". Thanks.




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