Re: Planning hot/live backups? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matthew T. O'Connor
Subject Re: Planning hot/live backups?
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Msg-id 47E8128E.1060600@zeut.net
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In response to Planning hot/live backups?  ("Steve Poe" <steve.poe@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Planning hot/live backups?  (paul rivers <rivers.paul@gmail.com>)
Re: Planning hot/live backups?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Steve Poe wrote:
> The owners of the animal hospital where I work at want to consider live/hot
> backups through out the day so we're less likely to lose a whole
> day of transaction.  We use Postgresql 8.0.15. We do 3AM
> backups, using pg_dumpall, to a file when there is very little activity.



You probably want to look into PITR, you can have a constant ongoing
backup of your data and never lose more than a few minutes of data.  The
overhead isn't all the big especially if you are shipping the log files
to a separate server.


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