Re: Incremental backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Patrick Macdonald
Subject Re: Incremental backup
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Msg-id 3E4BF161.AF1EBF0A@redhat.com
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In response to Re: Incremental backup  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> Someone at Red Hat is working on point-in-time recovery, also known as
> incremental backups. 

PITR and incremental backup are different beasts.  PITR deals with a backup
+ logs.  Incremental backup deals with a full backup + X smaller/incremental
backups.

So... it doesn't look like anyone is working on incremental backup at the 
moment.

Cheers,
Patrick

> It will be in 7.4.
> 
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> 
> Martin Marques wrote:
> > How's this issue going on the 7.4 development tree?
> > I saw it on the TODO list, but didn't find much on the archives of this
> > mailing list.
> >
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