Re: Need Help in Taking Backups - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Gourish Singbal
Subject Re: Need Help in Taking Backups
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In response to Re: Need Help in Taking Backups  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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Thanks, i think Slony-I might be an answer to my questions. But need
to explore Slony-I before saying anything.

Has Anybody found any dificulties in implementing hotback, using Slony-I.
Thoughts would be of great help.

regards
Gourish.

On 7 Dec 2004 04:17:21 GMT, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> Well, you can take a pg_dump to get the state of the system at a point
> in time.  That's very easy.
>
>
>
> But you really need to specify your 'disaster modelling' and recovery
> requirements in _much_ greater detail.  It may be that in order to
> keep recovery time down, you'll need to use a replication system such
> as Slony-I to give you a "hot backup" that's sitting just a few
> transactions behind.
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Gourish Singbal

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