Re: Incrementally Updated Backups - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Incrementally Updated Backups
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In response to Re: Incrementally Updated Backups  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> Nice in theory.
>> Except backups can not be fully trusted if they rely on database recovery
>> mechanics as part of the restore process.
>
>> How certain can you be that the data you have in your backup will always
>> result to being able to recover 100%?
>
> If you don't want to trust our recovery, that is your decision.  We are
> telling you others do trust it.

Agreed.  If you can't trust your database to recover from a power
failure, you can't trust your database, period.

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