Re: How do I restore data changes made after the backup? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: How do I restore data changes made after the backup?
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Msg-id 200209172216.g8HMG2g26922@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to How do I restore data changes made after the backup?  ("Orr, Steve" <sorr@rightnow.com>)
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Orr, Steve wrote:
> Newbie here...
>
> How do I restore data changes made after the backup? I've been combing the
> docs and the web site but I don't see anything on this. Given a backup taken
> this morning, and a failure requiring a database restore, how do I restroe
> the data that was added after the backup was taken this morning? Isn't there
> any log files to apply to pg_restore? Does PostgreSQL have the ability to
> restore to the point of failure so no transactions are lost? (Like Oracle?)
> Is replication commonly used for this?

You want point-in-time recovery.  That is for 7.4.  That should be a 6
months away.

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