Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Good, but the salient followup questions to that are (1) backed up to
> >> where exactly?, and (2) how many days' past backups could we get at,
> >> if we had to?
>
> > They are dumped to a NFS share on this schedule. That NFS share is
> > dumped to tape by systems at Conova - I'll let Stefan fill in the
> > details about that.
>
> That's good as far as it goes, but seeing that PG is a worldwide
> organization now, I wonder whether our primary CVS shouldn't have
> backups on several continents. Pardon my paranoia ... but our
> collective arses have been saved by offsite backups at least once
> already ...
We already have that -- there's plenty of people who have rsync'ed
copies of the repository. Now, I don't back it up, so if someone makes
a mistake my copy will faithfully follow it.
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