Re: BAcking up a Postgres Database - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Dr. Hans-Christian Waldmann
Subject Re: BAcking up a Postgres Database
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Msg-id 200101110728.f0B7SbM19860@samson.fire.uni-bremen.de
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In response to BAcking up a Postgres Database  (D Johnson <dspectra@home.com>)
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> Will the postgres community ever consider creating a decent backup
> capability. Currently the way to create backups is through a Cron job.
> For Postgres to ever be considered a true production systen then some
> sort of transactional tracing has to be done. Otherwise you risk the
> potential of losing quite a bit of data.
>
> Dave Johnson
>

Who says that fancy user interfaces to backup services and schedule managers,
do any other thing than setting up a big big crontab file ?? This is just
what ADABAS or SAPDB do (and we should consider R/3-enabled dbs production
systems !?).

Hans



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