I would appreciate some advice from the experts on this list about the best backup strategy for my database.
The setup:
Size: might be about 200Gb
The server uses a Tivoli backup client with daily backup
At the moment There are pg_dumps for each database on the server on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. All this gets backed up to the Tivoli server.
I would like to reduce the size of the backups as far as possible as we have to pay for space on the backup server and I do not want any downtime on the database server.
I do not want replication, but want to be able to restore the database as recent as possible (at least as it was within the past 24 hours) as quickly as possible.
I have read about using pg_basebackup in an article from Shaun Thomas' booklet on Packt Publishers (I will probably buy the booklet). That seems to be a possible solution.
I am considering dropping the pg_dumps in favour of the pg_basebackup method. Will that be wise?
Regards
Johann
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