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From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Is pg_basebackup also for "regular" backups?
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In response to Is pg_basebackup also for "regular" backups?  ("Daniel Serodio (lists)" <daniel.lists@mandic.com.br>)
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Serodio (lists)
<daniel.lists@mandic.com.br> wrote:
> I was reading the documentation for pg_basebackup and it states that
> resulting backups "can be used both for point-in-time recovery and as the
> starting point for a log shipping or streaming replication standby servers".
>
> Should pg_basebackup also be used for "regular" backups, or only for
> PITR/streaming replication?

It's for "regular backups", based off PITR.

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