Re: Keeping a Backup database in sync with the primary - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Sean Davis
Subject Re: Keeping a Backup database in sync with the primary
Date
Msg-id 200701090837.08254.sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
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In response to Keeping a Backup database in sync with the primary  ("Carlson, James (Jim)" <jcarlson@rti.org>)
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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 07:32, Carlson, James (Jim) wrote:
> I have two Linux servers running with one as a hot standby should the
> primary fail. It is not critical that they be in sync with every
> transaction, but I would like to sync them up with a cron job in the
> middle of the night.
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>
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> Dose anyone have a suggestion on how to do this?

You can certainly use a cron job to dump and reload the database, but you
might want to look at other ways of doing this such as:

http://slony.info

Sean

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